SIGNALLERS: from The Story of The Anzacs

The Signallers shared all the dangers of the combatants without, however, being able to hit back. Their work took them into the advanced fighting line, for it was necessary that those directing operations should be kept in close touch with all that was going on there, and upon the devoted signallers fell the duty of carrying telephone wires to the front under the hottest fire. They did heroic work of this kind at the battle of Lonesome Pine. After the Landing, their duties were of a very trying nature.

One soldier writes :-"For the first ten days after the Landing we never had a wash; during this time we signallers used to work all day, keep defence heads during the night, and stand to arms every morning at 3 o'clock." One piece of work done by the Signallers on the Peninsula deserves mention here. Captain Watson and his unit were told off to build a pier, and built the famous one known as "Watson's Pier," which successfully weathered wave and shrapnel till the Evacuation.