242372 Able Sea. Harold Richard Phillips Royal Navy HMS Prince George from:Upper Holloway,London My Grandfather Harold Pool sailed as an Able Seaman from Plymouth on the Prince George. I have his extensive diary of the Gallipoli Campaign. He was one of the seamen landed on 6th of August 1915, he served in the trenches for 3 months, then returned to his ship after a few weeks hospitalized with dysentery. He was a gunner on deck. Here's what he wrote of 29th of April 1915:
"Our ship had a pretty warm time of it, shells raining down past our gun ports to starboard. I was standing at a gun and I can say
it made you duck your head! You can hear them come from a long way off, wondering where they will hit. We heard two great crashes in our ship
and found out later we had been hit twice by shells. To the starboard aft our Number 2 casemate was struck. It's like a steel room containing the 6-inch guns. The muzzle of Number 2 was hit twice but suffered minor damage. A plate was knocked out of the ship's side, flooding a bunker, making us list. The pinnace was holed on the boat deck and wire stays
were shredded on the torpedo nets. But the French troops got their artillery in and did some splendid firing up and down the row of the Turkish trenches. Great effect"
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