HMS Euryalus Landing the LF's at Gallipoli from her cutters

HMS Euryalus lost 88 killed and wounded in the operation. The two midshipmen in charge of the steam cutters shown in the picture were awarded the DSM
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HMS Euryalus

The landing at Gallipoli was commemorated on 11 July 1934, when Admiral Sir R Burmeister, who
had been the captain of the fourth HMS Euryalus at Gallipoli, presented the ship’s bell to the First
Battalion, XX The Lancashire Fusiliers at Colchester.
Since the action, a strong affiliation has existed between the ship and the regiment whenever there
has been a Euryalus in commission. This affiliation is currently maintained by the HMS Euryalus
Association and The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers into which the Lancashire Fusiliers was
amalgamated in 1968. The ship's motto "Omnia Audax" is that of the Lancashire Fusiliers & was
adopted by Admiralty dispensation in the 1950s.

The Standard of the HMS Euryalus Association.
(note the crest of the Lancashire Fusiliers in the bottom corner)

Euryalus in Mythology
In the Aeneid a Latin Epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC, Euryalus was a Trojan
Warrior, who with his friend Nisus, soldiered under the command of Aeneas. Aeneas was at War
with the Rutulians and the Latinians. Whilst Aeneas was off on a separate sortie, Euryalus and
Nisus decided to go and find him.
Unfortunately their way was barred by a large party of Rutulians. Euryalus and Nisus, seeing the
enemy had posted no sentries and had caroused not wisely but too well decided to sneak through the
enemy camp, killing as many as they could. This they did with great effect, but unfortunately ran
into a group of 300 Latinian Horsemen. They decided to hide in the forest, but they were
discovered when the moonlight reflected off Euryalus's helmet.
Although surrounded they fought well but were eventually killed, though not before Nisus had
killed Volscens the leader of the Latinians. When the Rutulians discovered just how many men
Nisus and Euryalus had killed they hacked off their heads and mounted them on pikes for the rest of
the Trojans to see.

The 6 Ships named Euryalus

First Euryalus 1803-1850	Second Euryalus 1853-1867	Third Euryalus 1877-1897
Fourth Euryalus 1901-1920	Fifth Euryalus 1941-1959	Sixth Euryalus 1964-1989

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The Euryalus Battle Honours
Trafalgar 1805 Baltic 1854 - 1855
Heligoland 1914 Dardanelles 1915
Malta Convoys 1941 - 1942 Mediterranean 1941 - 1943
Sirte 1942 Salerno 1943
Sicily 1943 Okinawa 1945

The Euryalus Bells
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The bell from the 4th Euryalus, a Cressy Class armoured cruiser that took the Lancashire Fusiliers ashore at Gallipoli, is with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (1RRF) in Tidworth, Hampshire. Photos courtesy of Capt Matthew Clark and Capt Stuart Richardson 1RRF

The bell from the 5th Euryalus, a Dido Class light cruiser, is with the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (2RRF) in Hounslow, Middlesex. Photos courtesy of Carol Valentine

The bell from the 6th Euryalus, a Leander Class frigate, is of silver gilt and is in the Fusiliers Museum, Bury, Lancashire.

There is also a small Euryalus Dinner Bell in the museum here being held by Helen Castle

The inscription on the silver plate is Presented to the officers of the First Battalion XX The Lancashire Fusiliers by the Officers, HMS Euryalus at Aqaba on Gallipoli Day 1951

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Their Church Service

IN WATERS DEEP

In ocean wastes no poppies blow,
No crosses stand in ordered row,
There young hearts sleep… beneath the wave…
The spirited, the good, the brave,
But stars a constant vigil keep,
For them who lie beneath the deep.
‘Tis true you cannot kneel in prayer
On certain spot and think. “He’s there.”
But you can to the ocean go…
See whitecaps marching row on row;
Know one for him will always ride…
In and out… with every tide.
And when your span of life is passed,
He’ll meet you at the “Captain’s Mast.”
And they who mourn on distant shore
For sailors who’ll come home no more,
Can dry their tears and pray for these
Who rest beneath the heaving seas…
For stars that shine and winds that blow
And whitecaps marching row on row.
And they can never lonely be
For when they lived… they chose the sea.

Written by Eileen Mahoney

Fusilier 50 Gallipoli 2018

go down the page to 29264 - 13 AUGUST 1915
GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN - LANDINGS
NAVAL DESPATCH dated 1 July 1915

sent to us by Kevin Heleswood

I have memories of Ex Plain Jane (Page 27) As most of you know I was in the battalion cross country team and we used to train on Raiser Back hill at the back of Erskine camp a few days before ex Plain Jane in training for cross country and I got 2 splinter in my left hand thumb which went septic. When we went on board HMS Euryalus it was decided I should get it treated as black lines where going up my arm the ships doctor said he would have to cut the two abbesses out which they did whilst we where on board and I still have the scars to prove it, I also had to have a weeks course of penicillin injections in my bum
Dennis Laverick

Taken from the Gallipoli Gazette July 1930