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8/11/15
old friend Pte. Emmanuel Vienna chronic cooks fatigue man. The gentleman had the misfortune the day we left Le Caire to sustain an overdose of Biere des Pyramides & whilst reclining on the highway a gharry run over him and he had to go to hospital. However he's here at last doing his bit. Emmanuel ! – and the irony of it, the low nickname he gets is "Tucker" Vienna. One does meet some characters What about old Hannaberry. And Ralston's indignant reply when questioned why he didn't embark with us. Carragher & Nicholas are doing good work in the firing line. Bed 2015.
9/11/15
Very dark at stand to and cold withal having perforce to relinquish "shorts" once more in favour of warmer breeches.
"Carry on' 0620. At 0635 the Turks fired a mine, the place rocked with the earth tremor and unpleasant fumes came right down our trenches. Their engineers calculations must have been all out as no damage occurred to our underground works and their mine was of shallow depth as the upper surface of the ground is broken into a small crater. In Lone Pine our chaps very neatly broke into & collared a big stretch of their tunnels and some trench which we now hold. Round trenches fixing up taking over and found latrines filthy and other things.
Padre gradually unloading himself of censoring. Busy here just before lunch, sea is as calm as a pond. destroyers suddenly started dashing round and round at full speed (probably after a submarine) around cruiser. After lunch cruiser steamed along and
bombardedtheright 1st Divn putting in broadsides for a while aeroplane spotting. At1415 we up to B8 and had good spy round with glass nothing much doing. Could see the provisions coming up and a long way off small parties picking berries & wild olives (Noticed walking round todaythat someof the shrubs are bursting out with wax coloured white berries.