New Britain herald., 1915-10-05
AUSTRALIAN FORCES
 GLORIOUS CHARGE
Capt. Bean Tells of Desperate
 Fighting in DardanelleS

London, Oct. 5,-As illustrating the difficult and desperate character of
 the fighting in the Dardanelles, at the same time paying tribute to the fight ing qualities and heroism of both Australian and Turk, Captain c. B. w.
 Bean, official press representative with the Australian forces, sends a belated description of the 'Glor1ous charge of two Australian light horse
 brigades at Anzac.
 "The attack of these two brigades occurred at a spot where natural ob- stacles made success impossible but the moment was regarded as neces- sary in order to draw Turkish troops away from points where real advances
 could be made successfully. Only one man in six of the Australians who left the trenches came back safely.
 Volunteer to Fight.
 This charge differed from that of the Light Brigade" says Captain Bean "In that it was made by horse men who had volunteered to fight on foot or in any other way, provided they could get to the Gallipoli Penin- sula and help the other Australians there. The two scaling ladders they carried with them are lying out there ir the scrub about half way to the enemy trenches, and there are num- her of tumbled like heaps of that dull, pea-soup colored Australian khaki which is the hallmark of un- recorded heroism on every battle field on this peninsula.
 You can piece together few sim pie deductions as to the details. There arc no Victoria Crosses; there are no birthday honors, but I know just this that for sheer self-sacrificing hero- ism there never was a deed in his- tory that surpassed the charge which two Australian light horse brigades made in the first light of Saturday Aug. 7, in order to help their com rades in a critical moment of a great l battle'
 Actual Infantry Advance.
 Afer describing the preliminary 1 bombardment of Turkish trenches l by artillery, which lasted half hour, | Captain Bean tells of the actual in fantry advance, which consisted of | three separate charges on three sides of irregular shaped ridges abreast of which the Turks had planted infan- y these movements the second line men were ordered to advance two minutes after the first line, the third line along after ten minutes. The orders were obeyed as of by a ma chine although every man knew death almost certainly awaited him at the op of his own parapet from the ma chine guns of the Turks. Describ- ng the Turkish fire at this point, Captain Bean says:
 "One knew nobody could live in it. Many fell backward wounded before hey had even cleared the parapet Others, wounded just outside, man. aged to crawl back before being hit | 1 again. The Turkish machine guns lrew line which none could pass, and a man who fell wounded often was hit six or eight times more as he dropped through the stream of bull lets.
 Small Flag Appears.
 ''It was all over within a quarter | of an hour but in the ex- treme southeastern corner of the ! Turkish trench there appeared for | just two minutes a small flag indicat- 1 ing the presence there of a group of | ; our men. Nobody saw them get there 50 nobody ever will know who they were or how they did it. For two