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The tug Gaby sinks as fierce storm lash the Gallipoli peninsula; her crew just manage to escape CEW Bean, Gallipoli, 17 November 1915.

The tug Gaby sinks as fierce storm lash the Gallipoli peninsula; her crew just manage to escape CEW Bean, Gallipoli, 17 November 1915.

  • Winter arrives with a vengeance on the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing piers at Helles and Anzac are smashed. Captain Pawson, the Military Landing Officer at Helles, writes:

    All along the beach above the roar of the waves could be heard the crash of the great barges as the sea hurled them again and again against the shore

  • The people of Millthorpe present Ern Nicholls with a gold wristlet watch at the Saturday night pictures, on the eve of his departure for the front. Presentation to Private E Nicholls