a successful counter-attack which caused
great loss to the enemy. Captain O'Hara died soon afterwards of wounds
received in action. He was the only son of Mr. W.J. O'Hara, resident
magistrate, Ballincollig, Co. Cork, and a nephew of Dr. O'Hara, Bishop
of Cashel.

In the morning an assault was made upon the fort and village on the
heights. The Dublins advanced, with the Munsters on their right and
the Hampshires on their left. Through the prickly scrub or brushwood
of the hill ran three lines of trenches and a network of entanglements
made of barbed wire of an unusually strong and vicious kind. Out of
these entrenchments the machine-guns poured a devastating stream of
lead. To attack such a position seemed almost to match in madness the
landing of the day before. I do not think there is any sound of battle
more appalling to the soldier who has to face it than the devil's
tattoo of the machine-gun sending forth its six hundred bullets by the
minute. "It was up the hill and back again, up and back," writes a
Kildare man in the Dublins, "till we began to wonder if the Turks
would not drive us into the sea." Lord Wolseley said that one of the
most difficult things for an officer to do is to induce a line of men
who, during an advance under fire, have found some temporary haven or
shelter, or have lain down, perhaps, to take breath, to rise up
together and dash forward in a body upon the enemy's position. Here,
however, there were deeds of bravery of the highest order. Corporal
William Cosgrave got the V.C. for pulling down, single-handed, the
posts of the high wire entanglements. In order to give encouragement
to his men Sergeant C. Cooney, of the Dublins--afterwards awarded the
Distinguished Conduct Medal--freely exposed himself in the open,
though the Turks were lying within seventy yards of him. This
conspicuous contempt of danger had the effect the gallant sergeant
desired. The men charged with a daring and fury that swept the Turks
out of the trenches, at the point of the bayonet, and had them back in
the village by 10 o'clock. In the streets the Irish were held in check
for hours and suffered more heavy losses from the fire of the Turks
strongly posted and concealed in the ruins of the houses. But at noon
the final rush was made, and the Munsters and Dublins stood triumphant
within the captured fort. Most of the Turks had retired during the
last stages of the attack; but in the fort were captured 200 of the
enemy with