15th October 1915

Kilid Bahr Plateau taken from near a Turkish gun position - one of a series of photographs

taken on the Gallipoli Peninsula under the direction of Captain C. E. W. Bean, of the

Australian Historical Mission, during the months of February and March 1919.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - G01964A]

Friday 15th Oct 

A little cool and very like rain.

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

[Author's Note:  On the 15th October, in the official Unit Diary of the 7th Battery,

the writing markedly changes in both appearance & style.  No mention is made

in the diary of a change of Battery Command, nor is any mention made in Major

Hughes' entries in the 3rd Field Artillery Brigades official diary.  On comparison

to the Battery's diary in July, the writing is identical to that of Captain Alan Percy

Crisp - from Crisp's dossier, he is recorded as having left the Peninsula invalided

in late July 1915, however returned to active service at Gallipoli on the 4th

October.  Why no written record exists of his re-installation as temporary

Officer Commanding the 7th Battery, in place of Lieutenant Sydney Francis

Hodgens, is unknown.]

15
(Captain Alan Percy Crisp, temporary O/C 7th Battery)

The Battery did not fire.

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

15.10.15 
(Major Francis Augustus Hughes, temporary O/C 3rd Field Artillery Brigade)

0700 xxxx Party of horsemen on KILID BAHR ROAD going North.

0705 Large number of vehicles also horsemen going North on KILID BAHR ROAD.

Day passed quietly enemys guns silent on this flank.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - Official unit war diary, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade]