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Title: Five Months at Anzac
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer
Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial
Force
Author: Joseph Lievesley Beeston
Release Date: May 24, 2005 [EBook #15896]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: ANZAC COVE.
_Photo by Lieut.-Col. Millard._]
FIVE MONTHS AT ANZAC
A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF
THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE 4th FIELD
AMBULANCE, AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE
BY
JOSEPH LIEVESLEY BEESTON
C.M.G., V.D., L.R.C.S.I., Colonel A.A.M.C.
Late O.C. 4th Field Ambulance, late A.D.M.S.
New Zealand and Australian Division
_WITH PHOTOGRAPHS_
SYDNEY
ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.
89 CASTLEREAGH STREET
1916
W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., Printers,
183 Pitt Street, Sydney.
DEDICATED TO
THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF
THE 4th FIELD AMBULANCE, A.I.F., OF WHOSE LOYALTY
AND DEVOTION TO DUTY THE WRITER HEREBY EXPRESSES
HIS DEEP APPRECIATION.
CONTENTS
THE FOURTH FIELD AMBULANCE
THE VOYAGE
EGYPT
TO GALLIPOLI
THE ANZAC LANDING
AT WORK ON THE PENINSULA
INCIDENTS AND YARNS
AIR FIGHTING
THE OFFICERS' MESS
THE ARMISTICE
TORPEDOING OF THE _TRIUMPH_
THE DESTROYERS
THE INDIAN REGIMENTS
THE SWIMMING
TURKISH PRISONERS
POST OFFICE
SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS
SIMPSON
CHURCH SERVICES
THE ENGINEERS
TURKS ATTACK
RED CROSS
PREPARING FOR THE ADVANCE
THE ATTEMPT ON SARI BAIR
AMBULANCE WORK
ARTILLERY
TURKS AS FIGHTERS
THE FOURTH FIELD AMBULANCE
Shortly after the outbreak of War--after the first contingent had been
mobilised, and while they were undergoing training--it became evident
that it would be necessary to raise another force to proceed on the
heels of the first. Three Infantry Brigades with their Ambulances had
already been formed; orders for a fourth were now issued, and
naturally the Ambulance would be designated
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