25th-26th Apr., 1915

25th-26th Apr., 1915] KEMAL‘S COUNTER-ATTACK 461
About 2.30 a.m. those juniors or other outsiders who were awake round the headquarters of the 1st Australian Division noticed a certain stir. Either Bridges, who had been to Birdwood’s headquarters, had returned or some message from him had arrived. The voice of someone in the general’s dug-out was heard reading an order to be sent out to the troops upon the ridges: “Sir Ian Hamilton hoped that they would dig in, and that the morning would find them securely in their positions. . . .”