Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 145
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Anzac 2.7.15
My Dear Pater Mater Anne Jean Tien Liz Clarrie Phil Frank & Did, Sid & Dot Mabel. Francie, Kathie, Mrs K & Jean, Bill & Sophie Whyte & Allen Viva Linda Viv, Jean Begg Ida & Nora N Molly M. Liz Auntie Liz, Leoda Glad [indecipherable]
Still in the land of the living & feeling very fit & well enjoying life, eating like a horse, sleeping like a top & generally having a fine time.
I guess that by the time this reaches you you will have seen some mention of our first real fight. Curious position isnt it? Here we've been six weeks in the trenches, blazing away night & day never out of sight of the firing line, never out of the roaring of the fusillade & never absolutely safe even in our dugouts. Yet a few days ago we had our 2nd L.H.B. first fight. None of the minor patrols or reconnaissances or bombardments or the like could really be called an engagement as they are going on all the time. Trench warfare is like that. But this was a real big operation, though our brigade played only a minor part in the scheme. The Anglo French force down at Hellas made a big advance on June 28 & we cooperated here at Anzac by making a big demonstration. The artillery opened up, the guns from the Navy adding its