Ashmead-Bartlett, writing from Gallipoli, provides this account of a scene around Krithia in May 1915: "Neither was the picturesque element of colour absent from...

troopship). From 6 May, as its units landed, engaged in the Battle of Krithia: took part, on May 6th, 7th and 8th, 1915, in the 1st engagement of Kéréves...

strength of 24 companies, they subsequently took part in the First Battle of Krithia on 28 April. In early May, the Ottoman forces launched a heavy counterattack...