Item 02: Hunter Gibson diary, March 1915 - March 1916 - Page 29

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night and I feel sure that I will be allowed to attend that. I spend a fair amount of my time reading and no doubt as I gather strength I will be able to devote yet more time to it.

Saturday 2nd October 1915. News has come through that the Dardanelles have been forced 7 ships being sunk in the operation. The papers of to-night ought to confirm the report if it is true. On the In the paper of the 30th Sep. was an account of the capture of 120 000 Germans by the French. Our own troops have received have to work in a country which affords any amount of cover to the enemy who place their machine guns in doorways cellars & garrets; in fact in every available position.

The evening before I left Ghezireh Hospital I ate some meo water-melon which an obliging orderly told me I might have. I was at the time in a state of extreme debility and had but shortly got over an attack of chronic