First New Zealand artillery landed

“Artillery Headquarters landed with the boats of the first tow, which reached the shore a few minutes before 10 a.m. [25 April], and the C.R.A. [Commander(ing) Royal Artillery] and staff immediately commenced to reconnoitre positions for the Brigade. It needed no reconnaissance to show that in such country it would be a matter of the greatest difficulty to select positions for the 18pr. batteries; it was, however, quite suited for howitzers. Efforts were made to get some of the guns ashore, but without avail; and Headquarters had to content itself with the selection of positions, and the partial preparation of some of them during the night.”

“During the night the guns of the 4th Battery were unloaded from the Australind on to barges. The Left Section of the Battery landed at 6.30 a.m. on the 26th April, and immediately went into action at the foot of Howitzer Gully, the guns being pulled along the beach by two teams of Australian horses which had been brought ashore the previous afternoon.” [Excerpt From: Lieutenant J. R. Byrne. “New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18.”]