Key dates over August 1915
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Lives lost on this day: 13
8th August 1915 - Casualty toll continues to rise in Gallipoli
Rolling casualty count: 2027
2nd Batt: Battalion in billets at Beuvry; 3rd Batt: In trenches near La Brique; 9th Batt. - Battle of Sari Bair - 4:15 am move to assault gully, but impeded by boulders, shrub and the mules of the Mountain Battery only advanced half a mile by dawn. The gully narrowed and men and mules were scrabbling for ground. By midday, reached end of ravine and joined the North Staffordshires and the 6th Gurkhas, confused fighting ensued with troops suffering thirst and hunger. Relieved by 9th Royal Warwickshire and 7th South Lancashire: moved into supporting position.
Lt CE Sladden, C Company, held ground all day with little support. he wrote later: "a little patch of ground at the bottom of the ravine was more packed with casualties than any spot I ever saw again. below the ravine the gully was almost impassable except by active short rushes. Crowds of wounded were killed trying to get back along it, and scores decided not to attempt it"
Note: Worcestershire archive and Archaeology Service holds letters from various members of the Sladden family ref. 705:1037
Information researched by Sue Redding
Casualties
- Pte. Albert Edward Gilks 13281 - 3rd Batt:
- Pte. John Gardiner 21335 - 4th Batt:
- Pte Thomas Plant 5952 - 4th Batt
- Pte. Charles William Allen 14139 - 9th Batt:
- Pte. Sidney Bowater 14091 - 9th Batt
- Pte. John James Capes 16611 - 9th Batt
- Pte. Thomas Cutler 14110 - 9th Batt
- Pte. George Leonard Howson 15144 - 9th Batt
- Pte. Ernest Matthews 14032 - 9th Batt
- Pte Joseph Rowberry 13656 - 9th Batt
- Pte. Eric Saville 13962 - 9th Batt
- Pte. Alfred Tansley 14793 - 9th Batt
- Pte. Albert Wetherall 13765 - 9th Batt