Item 02: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 21 March-3 September 1915 - Page 90

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29.5.15
to their original trenches, & the sappers were armed with bombs. Our boys then had an easy task as they dropped bombs every yard or so along the trench amongst the Turks. The Turks that tried to retire were mowed down by our machine guns & the rest killed with bombs. We lost a good many men when the trench was blown up but nothing in comparison to the Turks. About 20 Turks came over & surrendered this morning, we get an odd prisoner or two every few days. 3 C Sqd. men were wounded this morning, we had 10 men amongst the sapping party. A Sqd. had 3 men killed. When we got out of bed this morning Stan noticed a hole at our feet, we investigated & found five or six inches deep the timing portion of

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