5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment: an unexplained mass disappearance

[Tangri]

The case of the Vanishing Battalion remained pretty much closed until the 50th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in April 1965, when a New Zealand WWI veteran by the name of Frederick Reichardt, along with two of his compatriots, came forward with their own alleged first-hand account of what he saw on that fateful day. The story was recounted by Reichardt during a reunion of veterans and offered a bizarre, if controversial, twist on the tale of the missing battalion.
Reichardt went on record saying that they had been sappers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and that they had been operating in an area near a Turkish position known as Hill 60, which was not far from where the lost Norfolk Regiment had been waging war. The sapper claimed they noticed between 6 and 8 odd, grayish brown, “loaf shaped” clouds hovering over the battlefield. The weird clouds were described as being completely still even in the face of high winds at the time. Beneath these clouds was reportedly another, even larger and denser looking cloud that was estimated as being around 800 feet in length and around 200 feet high. This massive cloud was allegedly hugging the ground over a dry creek bed when the Norfolk Regiment approached, and without hesitation they proceeded to march directly into it. When the regiment had disappeared into the cloud, Reichardt claimed that it had then slowly risen upwards to join the other strange clouds, apparently taking the soldiers with it, after which they all moved off to the north in unison before disappearing from view. The story was first published in the September/October edition of the New Zealand UFO magazine Spaceview in 1965. The story would be somewhat corroborated when in 1966, another New Zealand veteran of the campaign, Gerald Wilde, told Spaceview magazine that although he had not seen the disappearance directly, he had heard many rumors among soldiers that the entire Norfolk Regiment had disappeared into a cloud that had been straddling the ground.

On August 21 1915, members of the New Zealand Army Corps’ First Field Company signed sworn statements that they saw the One-Fourth Norfolk Regiment disappear in an unusually thick brown cloud which seemed to move and rose upward and vanished. There were no traces of the regiment nor their equipment. No explanation can be found in the historical records of the Imperial War Museum archives.

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[Cidersomerset]

There was a TV drama based around this starring David Jason but I cannot
remember the hole thing...


All The King's Men (1999) - Final Scene

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Uploaded on 6 Jul 2009


The Sandringham company vanishes into the mist as they engage the Turks in
1915.

[Tangri]

Thank you, I missed that documentary


Link says (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p446Ft)

This video does not exist

[Cidersomerset]

Link says (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p446Ft)

The link has timed out, I cannot find a full version , but found another
clip of how the director speculated how the company met their fate.

This is only BBC interpretation , not fact as far as I know.


Fate of Sandringham Company

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Uploaded on 6 Jul 2009

The actual fate of the Sandringham company as imagined by the BBC production
"All The King's Men" (1999). The company allegedly disappeared in the mist while
enganging the enemy.

[chancy]

5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment

The case of the Vanishing Battalion remained pretty much closed until the 50th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in April 1965, when a New Zealand WWI veteran by the name of Frederick Reichardt, along with two of his compatriots, came forward with their own alleged first-hand account of what he saw on that fateful day. The story was recounted by Reichardt during a reunion of veterans and offered a bizarre, if controversial, twist on the tale of the missing battalion.
Reichardt went on record saying that they had been sappers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and that they had been operating in an area near a Turkish position known as Hill 60, which was not far from where the lost Norfolk Regiment had been waging war. The sapper claimed they noticed between 6 and 8 odd, grayish brown, “loaf shaped” clouds hovering over the battlefield. The weird clouds were described as being completely still even in the face of high winds at the time. Beneath these clouds was reportedly another, even larger and denser looking cloud that was estimated as being around 800 feet in length and around 200 feet high. This massive cloud was allegedly hugging the ground over a dry creek bed when the Norfolk Regiment approached, and without hesitation they proceeded to march directly into it. When the regiment had disappeared into the cloud, Reichardt claimed that it had then slowly risen upwards to join the other strange clouds, apparently taking the soldiers with it, after which they all moved off to the north in unison before disappearing from view. The story was first published in the September/October edition of the New Zealand UFO magazine Spaceview in 1965. The story would be somewhat corroborated when in 1966, another New Zealand veteran of the campaign, Gerald Wilde, told Spaceview magazine that although he had not seen the disappearance directly, he had heard many rumors among soldiers that the entire Norfolk Regiment had disappeared into a cloud that had been straddling the ground.

On August 21 1915, members of the New Zealand Army Corps’ First Field Company signed sworn statements that they saw the One-Fourth Norfolk Regiment disappear in an unusually thick brown cloud which seemed to move and rose upward and vanished. There were no traces of the regiment nor their equipment. No explanation can be found in the historical records of the Imperial War Museum archives.

Hello Everyone:
What does "All the Kings Men" (1999) have to do with what really happened according to the eye witnesses?
The real story was about massive clouds on the ground and ufo's.
"All the kings men" (1999) was about getting mascred?
Nothing to do with disappearing or ufo's flying away or clouds descending and ascending?
Not sure what we're supposed to understand here other than the bbc is trying to coverup the "real story"
chancy

[Tangri]

You are right chancy.
It is not related with " All the Kings Man" movie's dramatization.

During war Allies lost over 44000 men and 97000 wounded; Turks lost over 87000 men and 165000 wounded. It will be right to say the attempt failed with heavy casualties on both sides.

Denying 200 soldiers death is an unlogical in this math. Despite the wind direction clouds movements (up and north) success a supernatural phenomenon happened in that moment. I believe, Turkish and British authorizes were trying the cover up the real event .

[Bill Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p446Ft...

Cider, that's a curtailed link which won't work... there should be 11 numbers or letters after the "?v=". Could you check again?

[Cidersomerset]

Quote Posted by Cidersomerset (here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p446Ft...
Cider, that's a curtailed link which won't work... there should be 11 numbers or letters after the "?v=". Could you check again?

Yeah looking at it the link that has timed out refers to the other
clip I posted as far as I can tell....Here below.




Link says (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p446Ft)

The link has timed out, I cannot find a full version , but found another
clip of how the director speculated how the company met their fate.

This is only BBC interpretation , not fact as far as I know.


Fate of Sandringham Company

p446FtNC1Oo

Uploaded on 6 Jul 2009

The actual fate of the Sandringham company as imagined by the BBC production
"All The King's Men" (1999). The company allegedly disappeared in the mist while
enganging the enemy.

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The King's Men - A documentary. This is not a conspiracy doc.

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Published on 12 Nov 2015

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landings and the infamous action
of 12th August 1915 when 1/5th Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment, suffered such
casualties it became known as 'The Vanished Battalion.'

[Atlas]

Reverend Pierrepoint Edwards found them and reported at the time:

"We have found the 5th Norfolks – there were 180 in all; 122 Norfolk and a few Hants and Suffolks with 2/4th Cheshires. We could only identify two – Privates Barnaby and Carter. They were scattered over an area of about one square mile, at a distance of at least 800 yards behind the Turkish front line. Many of them had evidently been killed in a farm, as a local Turk, who owns the place, told us that when he came back he found the farm covered with the decomposing bodies of British soldiers, which he threw into a small ravine. The whole thing quite bears out the original theory that they did not go very far on, but got mopped up one by one, all except the ones who got into the farm."

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/5th-battalion-norfolk-regiment-the-true-story/