6th September 1915

Anzac Cove beach on the 9th September 1915 - a similar sight to which Will Sparkes

was overlooking on the 6th September (below).

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - P00176.008]

Monday 6th Sept

A nice day – Fairly busy re equipment. It is lovely to look out over the ocean as the breeze comes wafting over its rippling water.

[Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - William Sparkes diary]

Prior designations of the 7th Battery Guns, marked centre left as 'HUGHES BATTERY,'

was reorganised as per Captain Waite's diary, below (click image to enlarge).

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - RC04181]

Sept. 6

(Captain William Charles Waite, temporary O/C 7th Battery)

Battery did not fire.  All zones quiet.

Guns renumbered from right (original No. 1 Gun having been moved to left flank) as emergency “No. 2” Gun being now “No. 1;” “No. 3” – “No. 2;” “No. 4 – No. 3” + “No. 1” – “No. 4.”

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - Official unit war diary, 7th Battery]

Keith Murdoch, Managing Editor of the Sydney Sun & Melbourne Herald, outside Capt.

C.E.W. Bean's dugout at Anzac Cove.  Murdoch arrived at Anzac Cove on the 3rd

September 1915, for a whirlwind tour as journalist under permission from General

Hamilton, and returned for Headquarters at Imbros on the 6th September 1915 - during

his time at Gallpioli, after witnessing the battle front for himself & no doubt taking

notes from Captain Bean, Murdoch would hatch a plan in corroboration with fellow

journalist Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, to circumvent the strict censorship rules

governing war correspondents & bring attention to the actual situation at Gallipoli.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - A05396]