Pte Williams was with the Lancs. Fusiliers
and is listed as Entered Service Abroad on 25th April 1915 in Theatre
2B which was Gallipoli. It was also the first day of the assault
on W Breach by the Lancs. Fusiliers and after became known as Lancashire
Landing Beach and Six VCs Before Breakfast , the
intensity & resistance of the enemy was so great. The battalion landed
with a Force of 1029 men and after the first day on W Beach it was down
to 410 Officers & men, the being missing or dead. In a despatch of
the 20th May 1915 it read So strong were the defences of W Beach
that the Turks may well have considered them impregnable and it is my
form conviction that no finer feet of arms has ever been achieved by the
British soldier or any other soldier than the storming of these trenches
on the morning of the 25th April.
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