Gallipoli Diary Author:Ian Hamilton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: George H. Doran Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 History / Military / General History / Military / World War I Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy... more » the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H THE] STRAITS Cast anchor at Tenedos at 3 p. m., 17th March, 1915, having entered the harbour at the very same instant as le general d'Amade. Hurried over at once to a meeting aboard that lovely sea monster, H. M. S. Queen Elizabeth. Present: -- Admiral de Robeck, Commodore Roger Keyes, Admiral Guepratte, cmdg, French Fleet, General d'Amade, General Braithwaite, Admiral Wemyss, . Captain Pollen, Myself. De Robeck greeted me in the friendliest fashion. He is a fine looking man with great charm of manner. After a word or two to d'Amade and being introduced to Wemyss, Guepratt6 and Keyes, we sat down round a table and the Admiral began. His chief worry lies in the clever way the enemy are now handling their mobile artillery. He can silence the big fortress ordnance, but the howitzers and field guns fire from concealed positions and make the clearing of the minefields something of a V. C. sort of job for the smaller craft. Even when the Fleet gets through, these moveable guns will make it very nasty for store ships or transports which follow. The mine-sweepers are slow and bad with worn out engines. Some of the civilian masters and crews of the trawlers have to consider wives and kids as well as V. C. s. The problem of getting the Fleet through or of getting submarines through is a problem of clearing away the mines. With a more powerfully engined type of minesweeper and regular naval commanders and crews to man them, the business would be easy...« less