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our work was very heavy & we were glad of an hours respite to get cool. Our work during this attack was right on the new firing line & it was all the more heavy owing to heavy shrapnel fire & piles of dead which had to be trampled over before we gained cover. A kindly sergeant seeing our plight dragged a heap of dead Turks & piled them on the parapet. In the afternoon we were placed up Shrapnel Gully, so called because it rains death & disaster each bombardment. Twas here the Greeks lost 70000 of their men during their war against Achi Babi & we also have a lot of our men buried here. At 5.30 p.m. our field & navy guns commenced the action & the Turks replied with howitzer shells & bombs. Our position was a long way from comfortable & when the football species of bombs came over & tore great holes in the earth & covered us completely with wet earth we felt far from content. Even when death is hurled at you with great velocity humorous incidents creep in & make life happy for one, even if the next moment is death. A young chap during this Artillery duel was laboring up the roadway with a biscuit tin filled with water. Almost opposite us he got talking with some of