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on Monday morning, reaching Walkers pier at 4.25 Am – doing in 20 minutes what used to take an hour –We ran all the way, with Soks on our boots to hide the sound – The big mine with all the surplus High Explosives being fired just as we entered the MAORI sap from No 1 Outpost, a terrific explosion & now the Turks fired everything they had. At the wharf were Colonel ANTILL & the embarkation officer & about 5 others behind us as our barge steamed out they got with another tug on the opposite side of the pier there were no others –I left in my dugout, Blankets, rubber boots & kit that I could not carry & a letter to Johnny Turk asking him to give any of our prisoners or wounded a fair go –The hours were long waiting, to add to the deception we walked about the trench coughed & kept firing from different positions. I had spare rifles loaded & placed in position & plenty of bombs, but
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