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Hasan-Mevsuf battery cemtery and memorial
HASAN-MEVSUF BATARYA ŞEHİTLİĞİ VE ANITI
I have instructed Ali Bey ... ... to go and check the state of our Dardanos battery, which had recently been reinforced with 15 cm guns from the battleship “Asar-ı Tevfik”. Upon his return (on horseback) from the battery he reported that Captain Hasan and Lieutenant Mevsuf had fallen while on duty and that the guns had been completely destoyed.
Translated from “Çanakkale Memoirs”, Çanakkale recollections / Volume I, (Istanbul 2005), Salahattin Adil Paşa, p. 133
On 16th March, two days before the famous naval battle, American Ambassador Morgenthau visits the Dardanos Battery during an inspection of the Dardanelles fortifications :
The Turkish generals were extremely proud of the fight which this Dardanos battery had made against the British ships. They would lead me to the guns that had done particulary good service and pat them affectionately. For my benefit Djevad called out Lieutenant Hassan, the Turkish officer who had defended this position. He was a little fellow, with jet-black hair, black eyes, extremely modest and almost shrinking in the presence of these great generals. ...
... "It is men like you of whom great heroes are made", said General Djevad. He asked Hassan to describe the attack and the way it had been met. The embarrassed Lieutenant quickly told his story, though he was moved almost to tears by the appreciation of his exalted chiefs. "There is a great future for you in the army", said General Djevad, as we parted from this hero.
Poor Hassan's "future" came two days afterwards when the Allied fleet made its greatest attack. One of the shells struck his dugout, which caved in, killing the young man. Yet his behaviour on the day I visited his battery showed that he regarded the praise of his general sufficient compensation for all that he had suffered or all that he might suffer.
"Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story", (Kessinger Publications), p. 134-135
Stagecoach Midlands Dennis Dart SLF 4, ALX Enviro 200 YY14 WFA (37110) turns onto Greyfriars on route 15 to Acre Lane. Mon 07.03.2016.
Sandefjord Airport Torp (TRF) on October 14, 2005. Widerøe De Havilland Canada DHC-8-311 Dash 8 LN-WFA (cn 342). This aircraft was transferred to Jazz Air in January 2008 with the new registration C-FSOU.
Displayed at Çanakkale museum in Fort Çimenlik:
French Schneider canon 105 C modèle 1913 TR
C = court or short barrel
TR = Tir rapide or rapid fire