Gray Ewing

Died of Wounds on the 13/07/1915 received at the Battle of Achi Baba Nullah, Gallipoli

Gray arrived in the Balkans on the 22/06/1915. The 2/2nd (Lowland) Field Company were part of the 52nd (Lowland) Division. Gray Died of Wounds received at the Battle of Achi Baba Nullah, 12th - 13th July 1915 : The order was given to charge the Turkish defences in the late afternoon of the 12th July 1915. As was the case throughout the campaign, the fighting was conducted at close quarters, with some trenches almost within touching distance. The Battle proved to be an overwhelming disaster. On the 12th July, the 52nd (Lowland) Division suffered 2427 casualties, of which 1065 were killed. SEE PHOTOS x 22 FOR THE 2/2nd (LOWLAND) FIELD COMPANY WAR DIARY JUNE - JULY 1915. See Directory for Gray's elder brother Lance Corporal Archibald Ewing's page. Gray is also remembered on the Old Monkland Parish Church Roll of Honour (with his brother Archibald) and Stewarts and Lloyds Roll of Honour and in the St. Augustine's Parish (book) Roll of Honour (see photos). See photos for Gray's Medal Index Card, his Newspaper clipping, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects, his Service Medal and Award Rolls x 2, his CWGC Remembered with Honour listing, his CWGC Grave Registration x 2, his Headstone Report x 2, Gray and his brother Archie's Pension Records x 6, the Lancashire Landing Cemetery and the Royal Engineers Cap Badge and a photo of Lancashire Landing Cemetery with the Helles Memorial in the background. Gray's grave inscription reads "TO MEMORY DEAR". Finally, see photos x 12 for the 52nd (Lowland) Division Order of Battle (the Division Gray was serving with when he died) and PHOTOS x 56 FOR THE 52nd (LOWLAND) DIVISION BOOK 2nd - 13th JULY 1915, the Stewarts and Lloyds Roll of Honour plaque, Gray's name on the Imperial Tube Works section of the Stewarts and Lloyds Roll of Honour plaque x 2, Newspaper clippings x 5 (Coatbridge Express x 2, Coatbridge Leader x 1 and the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser x 2) and photos x 3 of a Remembrance tribute presented to the Church by the Old Monkland Brownies on the 10/11/2019. These feature all of the lost men from the Parish during the 1st World War (Gray and his elder brother Archibald mentioned in the 3rd photo, top right).