It is a consolation to know that the Turks suffered still more
seriously. Several times our machine guns got on to them in close
formation, and the whole surrounding country is still strewn with their
dead.
The reorganization of units and formations was impossible during the
26th and 27th owing to persistent attacks. An advance was impossible
until a reorganization could be effected, and it only remained to
entrench the position gained and to perfect the arrangements for
bringing up ammunition, water, and supplies to the ridges--in itself a
most difficult undertaking. Four battalions of the Royal Naval Division
were sent up to reinforce the Army Corps on April 28 and 29.