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dead, a message was brought to Mr. Hall that Major Costeker 

 lay dead near the battered lighthouse hard by Sedd-el-Bahr. 

 The three parsons climbed along the cliff-tops of Cape Helles, 

 skirting an abandoned Turkish trench, until they came to the 

 outpost of the 4th Worcesters, where they learned it was not 

 their own Brigade Major whose body was supposed to be behind 

 the lighthouse, but the body of the Brigade Major of the 86th 

 Brigade ; but they found the body, with face as peaceful as if 

 the brave man had only fallen asleep. The chaplains wished to 

 stay and bury him, but it was pointed out all were utterly 

 exhausted after a long day of fighting, so the burial had to be 

 postponed until the morning ; then when Mr. Hall was peace- 

 fully carrying out his work, having little idea the Turks were so 

 near, he was made cognisant of the fact by a sniper having a 

 couple of shots at him. Mr. Hall says if only he had possessed 

 a stop-watch at the time, he is sure he could prove that his 

 immediate leap into the afore-mentioned trench and his quick 

 departure were done in record time. But before he got back to 

 the beach the Turks had commenced that fierce counter-attack 

 which for a time threatened to drive all the British into the sea. 



Mr. Hall described that day as one never to be forgotten by 

 any who were present — the flares, rockets, thundering of the 

 mighty guns of our ships, incessant crackling of rifle-fire, all very 

 wonderful, and withal startlingly beautiful. All hands were 

 pressed into the defence, either to handle a rifle or carry am- 

 munition to the firing-line. At this time Mr. Reid, the Presby- 

 terian chaplain of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, won the 

 Military Cross and was mentioned in despatches for his zeal and 

 courage. 



It was Mr. Hall's first experience of war, and he found no 

 comfort in the thought, as the bullets whistled by, that there is 

 no danger from those that can be heard, for there was the 

 certainty of more to follow. 



The Eltham vicar says he believes " three causes prevented 

 them all being driven into the sea that night — the steadiness of 

 the British infantry, such as the 1st Essex and 4th Worcesters ; 

 inter alia the help of our war-vessels ; last and indeed not the 

 least, but the ultimately decisive cause, was, I believed thea 

 and I believe now, the direct veto of God Himself." 



Mr. Hall is full of stories of interest and deeds of heroism during 



