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Title: With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli, a chaplain's experiences
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Creighton, Oswin
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Turkey and the Near East
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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reallyfine, large, imposing, new church. The natives haderected a number of little stands where they soldoranges, Turkish delight, figs and dates. We seemto have taken over the island, and natives have to getpassports to enable them to go from one place toanother. However, they must be making lots ofmoney. Many can speak English, either having beenon English merchant boats or to America. The twoofficers I was with were rather stupid, and discussedhunting, etc., most of the way, and seemed to take nointerest in poking about. We had some difficulty ingetting a boat to take us back, as they all wanted somuch money. Eventually an English officer appearedand made a row and took their names down, and wesailed off in a fairly choppy sea, dropping a man atthe Russian boat on the way. Tuesday, April 13.—I went on shore again in theafternoon. It was very windy off shore, and the boathad the greatest difficulty in rowing the little w^ay to ( / ( r t c ^ « cc ■- 3 c ^c c ^ ^t c c Cg, t <;
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PRACTISING GETTING INTO BOATS FROM H.M.T. 'A- ' IN MUDROS HARBOUR IN GALLIPOLI 37 land. The General and Staff were in the boat, and itwas very funny seeing them carried ashore on thebacks of some of the Naval Division. It had beenraining all the morning, and the road, which had beenperfectly dry the day before, was a mass of slimy mud, which made walking very difficult. I saw the Commander-in-Chief tearing along through the village.They say he always walks very fast, and is of a quick, nervous disposition. We sailed back to the A in time for tea. I was pretty well occupied everyevening for the rest of the week. At 5.30, some fouror five men who had given me their names for Confirmation came in for a class; at 6.15 I went down tohold a service for the Naval Division and Engineers.Most of the former are pit-boys from Durham, niceboys, and I enjoyed my meetings with them verymuch. Two of the engineers came one evening andasked to be baptized, so I had further to arrange Baptism Classes. Then

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