No Better Death
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Nile River, 1, 2
No. 3 Outpost, Gallipoli, 1
‘no better death’ term, 1
Notes From the Front, 1
nurses, 1
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Ocean HMS, 1
Okey, Frederick W, 1
Okey, Pte Royden L, batman, 1, 2, 3
O’Neill, Maj Eugene J, 1
Orari HMNZT No.6, 1
Otago Infantry Battalion NZEF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
August Offensive, 1
casualties, 1, 2
at Courtney’s Post, 1
at Gallipoli, 1
on Imbros Island, 1
at Krithia, 1, 2
at Quinn’s Post, 1
at Suez Canal defences, 1
at Walker’s Ridge, 1
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painkillers, 1
Papamoa SS, 1
Paris, Maj Gen Archibald, 1, 2
Parks, Sgt Maj John B, 1, 2, 3
parole, 1
Parrington, Sgt Hugh M, 1, 2
Peacock, Mr, 1
peasants; Arab, 1
Greek, 1
Russian, 1
Penn, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4
Penn, Harry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Penn, Lucy, 1
periscopes, 1, 2, 3, 4
design by Malone, 1
personal equipment, 1, 2, 3
Philomel HMS, 1, 2, 3
Pickering family, 1, 2
Plugge, Lt Col Arthur, 1, 2
wounded, 1
Pont Limoun, Cairo, 1
Pope, Col Harold AIF, 1
Postal service NZEF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Powles, Capt Charles G, 1
Prendergast, Gen, British Army, 1
Preston 2Lt Allan H, 1, 2, 3
Primmer, Capt Jacob H, 1
prisoners of war; German, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Turks, 1
prostitution, 1, 2
Psyche HMS, 1, 2, 3
Punch, magazine, 1
Pyramids, Egypt, 1
Pyrgos, Lemnos Island, 1
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Queen Elizabeth HMS, 1, 2, 3, 4
Queen HMS, 1
Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56
improvements to, 1, 2
filmed, 1
Malone takes over, 1
Malone’s reputation, 1
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raisins, 1
Ramadan, 1
Rapinet, Andié and Rene (French children), 1
rations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
supplemented, 1, 2, 3
Reakes, Lt Col GJ, 1
Regimental Fund, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wairarapa, 1
Reid, Alexander W, 1
Reid, Capt Hector G, 1
Reid, Pte Robert, 1
Reid, Sir George, High Commissioner for Australia, 1
reinforcements, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
3rd, 1
Rhodes 2Lt Arthur TG, 1
Richards, Fr, 1
Richardson, Lt Col George S, 1, 2, 3, 4
rifles, 1
captured Turkish, 1, 2, 3, 4
Short Magazine Lee Enfield, 1
River Clyde SS, 1, 2, 3
Roberts, Lord, 1, 2
Roberts, Pte Sydney, 1
Robertson, Cpl Louis S ‘Jock’, 1, 2
Robinson, Maj William L, 1, 2
Roman Catholicism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Romania, 1, 2
Rose, Capt John M, 1, 2
Ross, Hon Capt Malcolm, NZEF war correspondent, 1
Rotorua SS, 1, 2, 3, 4
Royal Artillery, 1
Royal Fusiliers Regiment, 1, 2, 3
Royal Naval Division, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Royal Navy, 1, 2, 3
forcing the Dardanelles, 1
transport officers, 1
Ruapehu HMNZT No.5, 1
Ruskin, John, author, 1, 2
Russell, Col (later Brig Gen) Andrew H ‘Guy’, 1, 2, 3
Russian Army, 1
Russian Navy, 1, 2
Russo-Japanese War, 1, 2
Sacred Heart Convent; Egypt, 1
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Salisbury Plain, England, 1
Salvation Army, 1, 2, 3
Samoa, German, 1
Sanders, Louisa (‘Louie’, sister), 1
Sanders, Walter (brother in law), 1
Sandford, Maj Fred W, 1, 2, 3
Saunders 2Lt Charles W DCM, 1
Saunders, Lt Edward H, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Savage, Lt, Australian Engineer, 1, 2
Scharnhorst SMS, 1
Scholefield, Guy H, 1
Schuler, Mr, Australian war correspondent, 1
Seangchun HMT, 1
Sea of Marmara, 1, 2, 3
Sedd el Bahr, Gallipoli, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Serbia, 1, 2, 3
Shaw, Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Frederick C, British Army, 1
Shawe, Capt Charles, 1, 2
Shepheards Hotel, Cairo, 1, 2, 3, 4
Shepherd, Capt & QM William J, 1, 2, 3
Shera, Capt Louis M, 1
Short, Capt John L, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Sicilia HS, 1, 2, 3
Sievers, Cpl Gerald, 1
Signal Company, 1
Simpson, Pte Bethel G, 1
Skeen, Col Andrew, landing officer, 1
Smart, Pte Benjamin WH, 1
Smith, Edward M, 1
Smyrna, 1
Smythe, Col, AIF, 1
snipers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Malone warned of, 1
South Africa, 1
South African War, 1
Southam, Sgt William F, 1
South Wales Borderers, 1, 2, 3
Standish, Maj Ivon T, 1
Standish, Mr, 1
Star of India HMNZT No.8, 1, 2
Stewart, Lt Col Douglas McB, 1
Stoddart, Col Robert, AIF, 1, 2, 3
Stratford
Patriotic Committee, 1, 2, 3
stretcher bearers, 1, 2, 3
Stuart-Menteath, Miss, 1
submarines, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Suez Canal, Egypt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Malone commands sector, 1
Suleiman Jusef, 1, 2
Sunbury-on-Thames, 1
Swan, Pte James W, 1
Swayne, Pte Arthur J, 1
Sweet Water Canal, Egypt, 1, 2, 3
sword, war trophy, 1
Sydney HMAS, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sykes, Maj F Bernard, NZFA, 1
Syria, 1
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Tahiti HMNZT No.4, 1, 2
Talbot HMS, 1
Tayler, Lt George W, 1
Taylor, Col, 1
telephones, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Temperley, Maj Arthur C, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Territorial Force, 1
Thomas, Lt Col Charles E, 1
Thomas Miss, 1
Thomas Mrs, 1
Thoms, Capt Nathaniel WBB, 1
time; 24-hour, 1
Torch HMS, 1
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1, 2
training; amphibious landings, 1
in Egypt, 1, 2
Karori, 1, 2
Miramar, 1
musketry, 1, 2, 3
Trentham Camp, Wellington, 1, 2
Triad HMS, 1, 2
Trimble family, 1
Triumph HMS, 1
sunk, 1
troopships, 1, 2, 3, 4
attacked, 1
Australian, 1, 2
measles, 1
sunk off Gallipoli, 1
Turkey, 1
Turkish Army, 1
at the landing, 1
attacks Suez Canal, 1
dead soldiers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
in Egypt, 1, 2
on Gallipoli, 1
reinforcements, 1, 2, 3
Turkish torpedo boats, 1
Turnbull, Lt Frank K, 1, 2, 3, 4
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uniforms, 1, 2
Urquhart, Lt Murray, 1, 2
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Vasey, Agnes (aunt), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Vasey, George (uncle), 1
Vasey, Sister Teresa (cousin), 1
Venizelos, Eleftherios, Greek Prime Minister, 1
veterinary surgeon, 1
Victoria Cross, 1, 2, 3
von Sanders, Gen Otto Liman, 1
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Waimana HMNZT No.12, 1, 2
Wairarapa Patriotic Committee, 1
Walker, Brig Gen Harold B, AIF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
acting commander NZ Infantry Brigade, 1
visits Courtney’s Post, 1
Walker, veterinarian, 1
Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
sketch of, 1
Wellington battalion returns to, 1
Wallingford, Capt Jesse A, 1, 2
Wanalla SS, 1
water supply, 1, 2
Watson, Capt James T, 1
Webb, Lt Ernest JH, 1, 2, 3
Wellington, Duke of, 1
Wellington Infantry Battalion NZEF, 1, 2
at Krithia, 1, 2
at Quinn’s Post, 1, 2, 3
at the landing, 1, 2, 3
casualties, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
embarks in Wellington, 1
gains ground, 1
Headquarters connected by telephone, 1
in August Offensive, 1
in Canal defence, 1
indiscipline, 1
in Egypt, 1, 2
lack of respite, 1
Malone’s regimental number, 1
on Lemnos Island, 1
Regimental Fund, 1, 2
reinforcements, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
reputation of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
returns to Anzac Cove, 1, 2
Wellington Mounted Rifles NZEF, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wellington Terrace, Anzac, 1
Wells, Lt Godfrey C, 1, 2
Westerton, Charles, 1
Westerton, Fred, 1, 2
white arm bands, 1
‘White Gurkha’ term, 1, 2, 3
Whitmore, Pte David G, 1, 2
Whitting, Capt, Indian Artillery, 1
Whyte, Maj James H, 1, 2, 3
Wickham, Mrs, 1, 2
Will, Col William J, 1
Williams, Mr & Mrs, 1
Wilson, Gen, GOC Canal Defences, 1
Wilson, Lt Edmund R, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
body recovered, 1
Winter, Adrian, 1
Winter, Mr WHT, 1
women; Arab, 1
Egyptian, 1, 2
migrants, 1
society, 1
Turkish, on Gallipoli, 1
Woodhead, Cpl Beaumont W, 1
Wright, Col, RE, 1
Wright, Mr, Australian war correspondent, 1
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Young, Maj (later Lt Col) Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
commands Auckland battalion, 1
Young, Nurse, 1
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Zak postcards, 1
Zeitoun Camp (Esbet-El-Zeitoun), Egypt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
departed, 1
established, 1
map of, 1
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Lieutenant-Colonel W.G. Malone, commanding officer of the Wellington Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli, is best known for his capture and heroic defence of Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915. A gifted leader of men, he planned the action with his characteristic good sense and attention to detail. Chunuk Bair was held for two days before being lost in the last of a series of furious counter-attacks. By then William Malone was dead, and New Zealand had lost one of its finest officers.
It emerged later that Malone had left behind a detailed diary and a large number of letters to family members and friends. Always shrewd and observant, Malone charts almost daily the events in the year leading up to Chunuk Bair: his preparation for war, the training camps, the voyage to Egypt, landing at Gallipoli, and life on the peninsula during the eventful few months from April to August 1915. Renowned for his imposition of tight discipline, Malone was nevertheless a caring and thoughtful leader of his men, always concerned for their welfare. He also loved his family, and in particular his second wife Ida. His letters to her are among the most moving in this book, and his tender concern for their young family back home shines through. The story of his older sons, three of whom also served in the Great War, forms part of the narrative too, a family story which continues right up to 2012, when Malone’s great-great-grandson was killed on active service in Afghanistan.
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John Crawford is the New Zealand Defence Force Historian and has written on many aspects of the history of the New Zealand Armed Forces and defence policy. In 2007 he edited, with Ian McGibbon, Exisle’s monumental book, New Zealand’s Great War, and in 2008 he edited The Devil’s Own War: The First World War Diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart. He has also written To Fight for the Empire: An Illustrated History of New Zealand and the South African War, 1899-1902, and is currently writing a volume for the forthcoming First World War Centenary History series. He lives in Wellington.
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Young Cargo who had recently been promoted to Lt was killed in the trenches the night before last. Very sad really.
Still, no better death.
The story of Gallipoli has been told many times, but few first-hand accounts exist, and none shows such acute observation as this one by the commander who led the assault on Chunuk Bair: Lieutenant-Colonel W.G. Malone. His diary and letters reveal a man of honesty, wit, knowledge and courage—and tell a moving story we should never forget.