Item 02: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 21 March-3 September 1915 - Page 95

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[Page 95]

1.6.15
was shot on Sunday morning. Last night a good many New Zealanders came & camped at the bottom of Popes Hill. At dinner time to-day Major Granville told Sergeant Mack to call for two volunteers to go up the valley between the Turk trenches & our own. Fletcher & I volunteered, we are to go after dark & do not know yet what we are to go for. We went into the trenches at 4 o'clock to relieve the men now in 24 hours in the trenches & 24 out is the daily "menu" here. Soon after going in Maj. Granville & Lieut. Kater came along & gave instructions of what we had to do after dark in Dead Mans Gully, we have to explore it &

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