Item 04: Oliver Hogue letters, 30 March 1917- 3 October 1918, 26 February 1919 - Page 12

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and they blazed away for a few hours but did not come to grips.I had mu y machine gun nicely placed if they came any further But another company of our batallion from Mussel**ah had been hard at it for several days and nights and had sustained numerous casualties so the General  rang me up and during the night we changed over.   but the Turks never attacked.   All they did was to worry us with snipers and plaster the whole area with schrapnel and high explosive. I had my usual good luck and my company got off lightly.   But I did