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[Page 121]
11/12/15
Orders also to send out patrols so arranged to have patrols up the two gullies nearly all night. Man named Paton 'A' Co missing since yesterday, disappeared between trenches and beach. He is an eccentric, so may turn up meantime M.P's have his description Invited to two parties tonight. 1 to discuss some B & N in Major Smiths dugout at 2100 with Major [indecipherable] and Mackay & Capt Pedler, the other biscuits & sausage with Colonel at 2030. Query Can I do both?.
Most of our sappers relieved but some still on Brigadier has collared our new intended Regimental office for himself Nature of the ground compels us to go in a good long way in the other tunnel to get adequate depth of earth overhead. Bed early. Patrols saw 3 corpses unburied (enemy) in Gully.
[Transcriber's notes:Pg. 56. Mine explosion in tunnel, gas causing many deaths, 29/10/15.]
[Transcribed by Peter Mayo and Betty Smith for the State Library of New South Wales]