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of them and asked why they were retreating?; they answered that the position was too hot, and they could not find any of their officers; he told them they must hang on and to do the best they could. Seeing the position was very serious he handed his own battery over to Capt Whitting and went back to the firing line with the Australians, and stayed till they became settled. At another time a party of Australians seeing he and his Indian gunners sneaking up after them, mistook them for Turks and were about to open fire on them, when the word was passed on that it was
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