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by pieces of shell & shrapnel were killed by the concussion the other ships were still hammering away & the roar was continuous, we advanced a fair bit that morning, & if we only had more men we would have most certainly have broke right through to the Straits for they were fairly on the run but towards evening they came at us in thousands, & we were forced to retire some of the boys got cut off, but they refused to surrender, & died fighting to the last that night we took up our position & started to dig little shallow trenches all that night they attacked us, but we drove them back time after time, we used to get all sorts of order's, such as "cease fire" English on your right" The French are closing in on the left" You are firing on your own men"
they came from German officers who dressed in our fellows clothes, & got in our lines, they found a few of them out, at once, & they were shot immediately, but we never took no notice of these orders we could see the Turks to plain for that, the fighting never ceased that night, & as daylight broke it grew more furious than ever. I shot 3 snipers dead to-day (26th) they were picking off our poor fellows who were hobbling down to the dressing stations, the first one I killed I took his belt off to keep as a souvenir of my first kill with the rifle, the other two I laid out beautifully I felt a lot more satisfied after that for I had got even them, & that was great satisfaction to me. The battle still raged with unabating