New Britain herald., 1915-08-07
FIND TRAGIC NOTES
 ON DEAD BRITISH
Diaries Picked Up at Galipoli Re- veal Awful Character Of Struggle

Correspondence of the Associated Press.) | GallipoH Peninsula, Turkey, June 19.-Many dead British soldiers have been buried by the Turks-usually af- 1 ter trench has been taken. Before |! the body is di1posed it is searched 1 for letters, or some other means Of i Identification. In the course of this many interesting documents among ] them dairies of fallen officers and men, have been found A number of these were placed at the disposal of l The Associated Press correspondent with permission to copy such parts he 1 might care to make use of 1 Turks to Be Feared. l dozen of the dairies were read. Parts of them are given here. Life in l the trenches is pictured as one long round of fatigue and squading" and keeping back the Turks, whom nearly all had come to respect and fear.
 The dairy of Private R. Charbes- 1 worth, 9th platoon, "B' company, sth Manchester regiment, 32 years old, is somewhat typical of those kept by men of his station. There is a l quaint charm in his simple descrip- tion of the trip to Egypt and the ln- l stalling of the regiment in Mustap apha 1 Pacha camp, Alexandria. The insects | there were a plague, his dairy saws l and the men were glad when they i were transferred to Polymedia camp, on the island of Cyprus. l Then come references to long route marches and drill. Later the regiment was sent to Cairo. More marches followed. Many men fell out and often officers with humane jn- l chnations would help some poor en- listed youngster by carrying his rifle 1 for him.
 The regiment was picked for ser , vices in the Dardanelles. It was em- parked on the steamer "Ionian". of 1 Glasgow. For about month Private Char besworth fought at Sid-el-Bahr, life being a series of alternate shifts of work and rests.'' Then comes the last entry.
 "On the 2eth (May) we finished the trench. On the 27th we moved to the second line of trenches"
 "A march past Sir Ian Hamilton" in Egypt appears to have been the most important event to another, l dar, consist entirely of "on" and "off' duty and similar remarks.
 The dairy of another contains the owners will on the inside page of .he cover It reads:
 My Will: Everything I possess to go to my father (Signed) "Wilfred Hayes, 9th Batt Manche ester Regi- | ment.''
 Diaries Matter of Fact.
 The entries are extremely matter of-fact.
 May 18th, Turks advance.''
 May 18th one of our officers sh ot dead''
 May 21st, nothing doing all day"
 Many references to attacks by the Turks follow, the Royal Scotts," are given much credit by the writer for their brave conduct.
 May 27th, not a minutes sleep for three days and three nights"
 May 18th, we were obliged to move to our reserve trench"
 May 29th, during the afternoon the 9th B. M. R. 18th Battalion Man. chester Regiment) were digging Tn a trench, which they had advanced to during the night, when they were surprised by the Turks. They le- tired, leaving rifles and equipm ent behind We saw the Turks playing with the rifles and bayonets which were left behind. The artillery and infantry peppered them. The 9th Es- sex were to take back the trench and the Sixth who were in the reserve resting, after two nights of advancing and trench. digging, had to go and support them. The 8tn lost heavily, r although the 9th had few casualties. The Sth got the order to davnce with fixed bayonets but flunked it so we
 9th would not let them stay in the trench and pushed them over the parapet. Same day a wounded m1n crawled into our trench and said that sergeant and four men were the on ly survivors in trench. Reinforce l ments were sent"
 May. 30th. We are still in the trenches and are getting very worn are tired.'
 May 31st, Turks attacking. Eight Il unable to hold their own; one of our . platoons to aid. The Sth begin to re- i tire, but the sergeant in charge of the l 9th will not allow them to retire. Then comes the penultimate entry It is dated:
 June 3rd, Cousin Richard killed , only me left out of three of us.'' sthy,d ther