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7in the scrub early this morning, before breakfast larks were singing overhead. It rained hard yesterday & our dugouts were flooded out (The first rain we have seen for months) The earth was nice and fresh this morning. Curiously enough, I was awakened this morning - not by shell fire but by laughter: just sheer devil-may-care laughter. Its simply wonderful. There are thousands of young Australians here laughing & joking as happy as sandboys. And its no mere bravado - its genuine. The few Englishmen here are much quieter though of course no less brave. (The more I see of this place the more I honour the Australians who first drove the Turks from the heights). Also the more I am convinced that no other troops in the whole world could have done it. It needed their reckless irrepressible daring & dash to make good the landing just as it needed the well trained engineers and staff officers to perfect our defences & make fast what the Australians had taken. In connection with the big attack by the Turks on the 18 &19th we hear that Enver Pasha specially ordered
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