Box 08 Item 11: Hugh Venables Vernon diary, 1 January-22 August 1915 - Page 69
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[Page 69]
May 1915
29 Sat
Got up at 3.10 am and at 3.30 heavy mine explosions and the Turks shelling bombing and machine guns; they rushed Quinns Hill and took trenches; reported L-Cpl Grimson's [indecipherable] took 12 prisoners himself and joined the trenches again after searching in them for Turks
30 Sun
Some 60 of 10th ALH and some 30 or 2 NZ inf rushed out from Quinns to pull down the sandbag building in front and fill in the trench only 4 of 10 who were not casualties. Result more successful than not. No swim.
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