On May 14 General Gouraud arrived and took over from General d'Amade
the command of the Corps Expéditionnaire. As General d'Amade quitted
the shores of the peninsula he received a spontaneous ovation from the
British soldiers at work upon the beaches.
The second division of the Corps Expéditionnaire, commanded by General
Bailloud, had now completed disembarkation.
From the time of the small local push forward made by the 6th Gurkhas
on the night of May 10-11 until June 4 the troops under my command
pressed against the enemy continuously by sapping, reconnaissance,
and local advances, whilst, to do them justice they (the enemy) did
what they could to repay us in like coin. I have given the escalade of
Gurkha Bluff as a sample; no forty-eight hours passed without something
of the sort being attempted or achieved either by the French or
ourselves.