1st Battalion Unit History- 25 April 1915

Two destroyers came along side at about 5.45.  They had been engaged in landing the 3rd Brigade and carried some wounded men.  At 7 o’clock the first destroyer got away and stood in for the land.  The Turks were alive to the situation now.  Bedlam had broken loose.  The shattering crash of bigger guns mingled with a vicious tattoo of rifle fire.  The water was lashed by bullets and shells.  Volcanoes of spray shot into the air.  The Turkish battery on Gaba Tepe was shelling all boats which approached the land.  Warships were shelling the battery.  It looked as if they were smashing it flat, but the effect of their fire was remarkably small, for it kept up a steady bombardment.

It is difficult to give any coherent story of the doings of the 1st Battalion during the first two or three days on the Peninsular, as it was scattered in small units along almost the whole of the front.  A. Company was somewhere in advance of what was afterwards known as the Pimple, and in the vicinity of Lone Pine; B. Company was on the right of A. Company; C. Company between Wire Gully and the Chess Board; and D. Company on the left, holding a line from just above Fisherman’s Hut to Pope’s Hill.  These positions, however, are quite indefinite, since not one of the Companies then remained as a unit, but each was split up into platoons, sections, or even smaller formations, and these were inextricably mixed up with men of other battalions.

The Battalion had landed with a strength of 30 officers and 942 other ranks, and the following was the number of killed, wounded and missing from April 25 to 29 inclusive:

Killed: 3 officers, 33 others.
Wounded: 15 officers, 248 others.
Missing: 67 others.

Total: 366.

STACY, BV; KINDON, FJ and CHEDGEY, HV, The History of the First Battalion, AIF. 1914 - 1919, page 26-31 (source 150)