Item 03: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett telegrams, 1915 - Page 107

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[Page 107]

[Telegram form – The Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited. Alexandria Station. Dated 24 Aug. 1915. 207 words. Daily Telegraph London]
[Continuation of Ashmead Bartlett's first report of the British action at Suvla Bay,
6th – 10th August]

ELEVEN. between the opposing lines and neither was able to advance stop the hill which we had occupied in the morning emerged from his fiery ordeal a dull khaki whereas it had formerly been a blaze of green and bright yellow since that hour it has been known by the army as Burnt Hill stop these fire effectively put a stop to our advance on the ninth but the fighting and sniping lasted without intermission all day and through the night stop
Bartlett / Radcliffe Censor

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