Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 70]
never find his grave, he was as game a lad as ever looked through the sights of a rifle, & I shall never forget him. A few days after this I saw a little broad daylight charge of about 30 Turks they tried to rush the 16th Battalion I think it was we could see them quite distinctly for they were not more than 300 yards away we put a cross fire on to them as they went across, needless to say it was a failure & only 3 of them reached their trenches alive on the return run, their bodies lay there for months afterwards just where they fell, some little time before this I had a very narrow squeak a piece of shrapnel hit my hat & went through & carried away a piece of the scalp right on top of
my head the place is quite bare yet & no hair grows on it. The next little bit of excitement was on the night of the 5th June, when Lieut, Llyod of A Coy. took 48 men out to destroy a machine gun which was making things very hot for the 16th Batt. who were on our left, they got across alright & done their job, & also a few Turk's, & then they started on the return journey but by this time every Turk within ½ a mile knew of their whereabouts, & so they start to let fly for all they were worth, & of course we had to reply, & try to keep their fire down, but in spite of this, they had 7 men killed, & nearly 30 wounded Lieut. Llyod got the Military Cross for this. For months after we landed the Turks used to fire furiously all night long, they were very frightened of a night attack