Landing on Rhodes
Landing Order for the 57th
Infantry Regiment
In order for the landing operation to be conducted swiftly
and in an
organized manner, the following dispositions will be implemented:
1.Tomorrow at 0400 hours, all three battalions will be
prepared to land
in the following manner:
the First Battalion in the back of the ship, the
Second Battalion in the
front of the ship and the Third Battalion where
it is currently located. The four detachments that will constitute the
first stage (refer to the table below) will form up at the head of the
staircase of the ship that has been allocated for their landing.
2. From the moment the landing operation begins, the coming
and
going of individuals within the ship will be forbidden.
3.The landing operation will be conducted in accordance with
the table
below and under the command of the highest-ranking officer
remaining on the ship. Each unit commander will
land at the head of
his unit.
4.Before disembarking from the ship, as the last unit to
leave, the 8th
Company will ensure that
all those who must land, and all the
equipment, have departed the ship.
5.The landing point for the 57th Infantry Regiment will be shown
by a
double-pointed blue flame that has white perpendicular lines in the
middle initially.
6.Today in the afternoon the numbered signs for the ship’s
four
staircases and the units assigned to them will be posted. Each unit
commander must know the staircase
his unit will use and determine
the path to the staircase beforehand.
7.Again, today in the afternoon, First Lieutenant Noya will
arrange and
prepare the mules and all equipment (heavy machine guns and
ammunition) going ashore, in a place near to the ship’s right rear winch.
In addition, a minor-ranking doctor from each
battalion will collect all
his battalion’s health gear near the ship’s left
rear winch.
8.For the four days starting tomorrow, the units will take
for each man 4
breakfast meals, two day’s worth of bread, 3 evening meals to be
distributed at the second meal time, two day’s worth of wine, a can of
meat and
biscuits enough for 4 days.
Weapons, equipment, ammunition and reserve provisions will
all be
taken together.
Backpacks and helmets will be left on the ship.
Also to be taken along will be ‘kepi’ (piece of leather or
rag), ‘kukuleteli
kulat’ (hooded military cloak), food sack, canteen full of
water, portable
tools, sandbag, 208 bullets, two day’s worth of reserve
provisions and
provisions especially allocated for landing day.
Animals going ashore should be fed and watered
beforehand. Three
day’s worth of oats
will be allocated for the animals.
(The remainder of the order concerns instructions regarding
equipment
and personnel remaining on the ship.)
The First Battalion commander will appoint a companion
company for
the two 1906-model batteries and this company will come under the
command of the artillery battalion commander.
Table showing the composition of the landing stages and
which unit
will follow the other:
//‘Kademeler’ =
‘stages’ – order of landing, stages 1 through 7;
On the left: 1. Forward, right; 2. Rear, right; 3.
Forward, left;
4. Rear, left (of the ship)
Words: ‘piyade’ =
‘infantry’; ‘alay’ = ‘regiment’; ‘bölüğü’
= ‘
company’; ‘yarısı’ = ‘half’; ‘keşşaf’ = ‘scout’; ‘katır’ = ‘mule’.//
Attention: the 12
mules for the heavy machine guns and the six mules for
the health gear and the
other previously-mentioned riding animals will
make up the first and second rowboat
stages.
The regimental standard will be taken ashore together with
the First
Battalion.
Verona ship: 3 May 1912, 1500 hours
Regiment Commander Col. Vanzo
//END of PART II//
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