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fury, & the shrapnel fire was worse if anything to-day for during the night the Turks must have brought up a lot more guns during the night & were making things uncomfortably warm for us, the warships were trying to find the Turkish batteries, but I don't think they done much good, for the fire never slackened, & so we battled the day through, we were losing steadily but the Turks suffered just as much as we were doing, I had no water at all to-day for a bullet had penetrated my water bottle & let it all out but I was not the only one in that state, for most of the chaps had emptied their water bottles to keep the machine guns going, thats the sort of spirit they fought with, went thirsty themselves rather than let the machine
gun get to hot to work, I never saw Len since we landed, & don't know where he is, we held on somehow all that day & night against terrible odds the next day 27th was the fiercest day of all, it was one constant & fierce struggle they done their damndest to wipe us right out, but if ever men fought hard, well the Colonials did that day, they got that close to the section we were holding that we were ordered to prepare to charge, at the word "charge" we hopped out as one man & before the Turks knew what was happening we were among them, I don't remember much about it, but I can recollect driving the bayonet into the body of one fellow quite clarly, & he fell right at my feet & when I drew the bayonet out, the blood spurted