2/Lt Sidney Vandyke HASLUCK, Ind. Army Res. of Off.

[michaeldr]

Remembered today on the Great War Forum

from the CWGC

HASLUCK, SIDNEY VANDYKE

Initials: S V

Nationality: Indian

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment/Service: Indian Army Reserve of Officers

Secondary Regiment: 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs

Secondary Unit Text: attd

Age: 26

Date of Death: 04/06/1915

Awards: Mentioned in Despatches

Additional information: Son of the Rev. Ernest E. Hasluck and Mrs. Hasluck of Warren House, Caversham, Reading, formerly of Handley Vicarage, Salisbury.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 253.

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

additional information from 'To What End Did They Die? Officers Died at Gallipoli' by R. W. Walker

Born 11th November 1888 at Handsworth, Birmingham, the son of Rev. E. E. Hasluck, Vicar of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. Educated at Marlborough. He spent 3 years in the Dorset Yeomanry and then became a tea and rubber planter in Ceylon. In early 1915, he took part in the fighting on the Suez Canal when he was attached to the 89th Punjabis.

from the London Gazette

War Office.

17th March, 1917.

DARDANELLES DESPATCHES.

The names of the undermentioned Officers,

who fell in action or died of wounds, have been

brought to the notice of the Secretary of State

for War by General Sir Ian Hamilton,

G.C.B., for distinguished and gallant service

during the operations in Gallipoli. Their names

should be included in the List of Mentions

published in the London Gazette of the 5th

November, 1915 (29354).

14th Sikhs

2nd Lt. S. V. Hasluck, Ind. Army Res. of

Off.

from 'Gully Ravine' by Stephen Chambers

"Second Lieutenant Reginald Savory, 14/Sikhs, who was wounded in the action, stated that: 'Methods here seem to be based on a theory that all tactics are rot, and that the only way to do anything at all is to rush forward bald-headed, minus support, minus reserves, and in the end probably minus a limb or two. Hence causing the almost total wiping out of the 14th Sikhs on 4th June. We had as our own special task, to advance up a nullah (a thing which one has always learned should never be done until all the ground commanding it is first seized) against the Turks who were in a wired trench at the end, and also on both sides and at the top, and their machine guns took us in front and rear and from practically every side.(Needless to say we had no supports whatever! Not a damned thing!) Well at 12 noon, we got up out of our trenches, got through their barbed wire (the only regiment that did) and bagged their first trench; total time taken, roughly twenty minutes. We hung on there all right, unable to go forward because of having only two British officers left, and also because of their machine guns..not a single reinforcement did we get after repeated messages had been sent, and at about 9 am next day we had to come back having had nine officers killed and three wounded out of fourteen, and the regiment being 135 strong...so there goes one of the finest regiments of the Indian Army, and certainly the best on this old Peninsula.'"

[DavoT]

Not Forgotten - May he rest in peace.

LEST WE FORGET

[michaeldr]

the records held at the NA suggest that Sidney Hasluck commenced the war as a private in the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

which ties in with Walkers statement that he was "a tea and rubber planter in Ceylon"

and that sometime later he became an officer on the Indian Army Reserve list

see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...Edoc_Id=2762101

and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...Edoc_Id=6666505

[ralphjd]

BRAVE MEN NOT FORGOTTEN