{"id":2496,"date":"2015-11-21T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T12:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:03:25","slug":"storming-of-the-dardanelles-by-thomas-doran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/storming-of-the-dardanelles-by-thomas-doran\/","title":{"rendered":"STORMING OF THE DARDANELLES BY THOMAS DORAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

STORMING OF THE DARDANELLES<\/strong><\/p>\n

We talk of Irish regiments, no wonder why we do,<\/p>\n

The Dublins and the Munsters, you\u2019ve heard about those two;<\/p>\n

You can see by many papers how Irish blood it tells<\/p>\n

The way those famous regiments fought at the Dardanelles.<\/p>\n

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On the 25th of April, when we did make a start,<\/p>\n

We were singing Tipperary, a song that reached our hearts;<\/p>\n

The ships were packed with khaki lads, such spirits they did show<\/p>\n

To the cry Are we downhearted? We quickly answered No.<\/p>\n

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We got then into our small boats, this way we were to land,<\/p>\n

Then every Tommy could be seen with a woodbine in his hand,<\/p>\n

There were boys from Tipperary, from Cork and County Clare,<\/p>\n

And the boys from County Dublin and the Short Grass, that\u2019s Kildare.<\/p>\n

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The Turks they were prepared for us, as one and all could tell,<\/p>\n

For about one thousand yards from land we were met with shot and shell;<\/p>\n

There were bodies floating through the sea and hundreds on the sand,<\/p>\n

But the Turks they suffered terribly when we fought them on the land.<\/p>\n

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The wounded moaning mercy, it was an awful sight;<\/p>\n

Those who got badly wounded were wishing for the night,<\/p>\n

And when night came our stretcher boys had lots of work to start,<\/p>\n

Collecting bodies, legs and arms, the sight near broke their heart.<\/p>\n

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The Turks were then retreating, their numbers lost were large;<\/p>\n

Our officers say Dublins! We\u2019ll have a bayonet charge.<\/p>\n

The charge was done, the Turks they run, our lads in ringing cheers,<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t forget those Irish boys \u2013 the Dublin Fusilliers.<\/p>\n

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Before\u00a0I go,\u00a0I tell you, be proud and give three cheers.<\/p>\n

For those brave fighting Irishmen \u2013 the Dublin Fusilliers.<\/p>\n

Pte. Thomas Doran, 1st Battn., RDF.<\/p>\n

Private Thomas Doran, the Harbour, Naas, was wounded in the Dardanelles while serving with 1st Battn. RDF. He was shipped to a hospital in Exeter, where he penned a tribute to the Dublins titled \u2018Storming of the Dardanelles.\u2019<\/p>\n

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STORMING OF THE DARDANELLES We talk of Irish regiments, no wonder why we do, The Dublins and the Munsters, you\u2019ve heard about those two; You can see by many papers how Irish blood it tells The way those famous regiments fought at the Dardanelles.   On the 25th of April, when we did make a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}