Water shortages, Gallipoli.

Following the action at Kidney Hill the 6th Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were relieved on 17 August. As the Battalion withdrew in the dark Major R H Scott experienced a welcome surprise. His diary records the event:

Our mouths were parched with thirst, having had practically no food or water for two days. On reaching a nullah about half-way back, we saw a light in a sheltered spot and were hailed, "Are you Inniskillings?" and there was my old friend Captain J. J. Kennedy, who was Quartermaster of our 5th Battalion, with lots of water, waiting for us to come back. Knowing how we wanted it, he had "wrangled" it and kept his vigil all night waiting with his precious water for a Service Battalion of his old Regiment coming back. God knows how we wanted it, and thanked him.
I remember asking him how he had managed to get the water, which, to say the least of it, was very scarce the first week after the Suvla Bay landing. All he would say was that "a lot of his fine boys after the 15th [of August] had no need for water, and it was wonderful what pleasure an Indian Mule Water Party had when they met a Brilsheree who could speak Hindustani.