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incessant fire all night & a new day dawned with the boom boom of guns. As usual we had plenty of rumours aboard. We got orders to land our guns only & went ashore in Pontoons towed by naval pinnaces. Only gunners went as no horses were taken & we got a big cheer as we left the ship. I was in the second tow & when we got near the shore the enemy commenced to rain shrapnel over us. We had to take cover anywhere we could & as the pinnace was ordered to take cover go back to ship
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