1. TBD, or torpedo-boat destroyer, a title later abbreviated to destroyer.
2. Major Clark’s diary stated that our trip to the entrance to the Dardanelles was in the nature of a lecture and demonstration on the defences of the place. Actually we were standing by to land and had the naval attack proved successful, we should have been rushed through and landed to take possession of the forts of Chanak, Kilid Bahr and Maidos etc.
3. General Service wagons.
4. Full marching order.
1. Later General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC.
2. High Explosive.
3. King’s Own Scottish Borderers.
4. Later General Sir John Monash, who commanded Australian forces on the Western Front.
1. Army Service Corps, later Royal Army Service Corps.
2. Small arms ammunition.
1. A biscuit in this case is a third part of a mattress.
1. Royal Garrison Artillery.
2. Fever of unknown origin.
1. Inverted chevrons worn on the left forearm by privates and lance corporals.
1. Army biscuit was not a confection. The original French, bis cuit, means baked twice and thus Army ration bread, or biscuit, was bread that had been baked twice and, as a result, was hard.
2. The Royal Marines held precedence in the Army List after the Royal Berkshire Regiment, formerly the 49th Regiment of Foot.
1. Paris was born in 1861 and was fifty-five at this time. He was wounded severely in October 1916 and lost a leg.
1. Paris was wounded in the shoulder and the back and lost his left leg. He died in 1937 at the age of seventy-six.
2. Royal Marine Artillery. At this time there were two major elements of the Corps of Royal Marines, the RMA and the Royal Marine Light Infantry, of which the author was a member.
1. These were wound badges, worn on the lower left arm.
1. Bottomley, a former MP, was editor of the popular magazine John Bull. In 1922 he was convicted of fraud and imprisoned for a Victory Bonds scam.