Item 03: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 4 September-18 December 1915 - Page 88

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[Page 88]

15.11.15
About 3 oclock this afternoon one cruiser & 2 Monitors standing off Imbros put in the rest of the afternoon with rapid fire the cruiser firing broad  €“sides & the Monitors their 2.14 in guns as fast as they could go ,firing to the south of us; I had to take a message to Brigade at 6.30 tonight it was moonlight when I started but a thunderstorm was coming up & I ran nearly all the way back from Bde & just got back as the rain started but it was only a shower; FH phone went bung tonight as is out of action. A very heavy sea is running; Hill 60 was mined & fell tonight, the mine blew up part of our own trenches as well as the Turks killing 4 & wounding 35 of our own men

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