history · by a contemporary
The Irish at the Front
Michael MacDonagh (1862–1946)
Named on the page for Landing at Suvla Bay.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Project Gutenberg.
6–15 August 1915
Landing at Suvla Bay
VI.--THE 10TH IRISH DIVISION IN GALLIPOLI 73 Landing at Suvla Bay and Capture of Chocolate Hill
"Your Irish soldiers are the talk of the whole Army.... Their landing at Suvla Bay was the greatest thing that you will ever read of in books. Those who witnessed the advance will never forget it.... God! the men were splendid."--Captain Thornhill, of the New Zealand Force.
To General Mahon's Division, composed exclusively of new levies who were civilians when the war began--thousands of Nationalist families in Leinster, Munster, and Connaught represented its ranks--the terrific open fighting at Suvla Bay (which began with the shelling of the lighters at the landing and the bursting of chains of contact mines as they set foot on shore) was their first experience of being under fire.
"Their landing at Suvla Bay was the greatest thing you will ever read of in books by high-brows.
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