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in, & now commenced a series of little fights for the best position, to run the trenches, there were constant attack & counter-attack for nearly a month after this.
On the 29th we went back to the trenches & the first thing we had to do was to rush a trench, that the Marines" had held & lost, our company was entrusted with this piece of work, we attacked just at daybreak, & got into the trench with the loss of a few men, this is where I got a bullet which just grazed my kneecap, a very close call holding the trench was the job for it was cut off from the rest of our positions, & we had no communication sap cut through at that time, though they were hard at it the Turks got all round us & we
were expecting them to attack us with the bayonet, but we made it a bit too hot for them with the rifles & they kept off, we held it all that day without water or food, for they could not get any to us without coming over the open ground, & that was certain death, night came & we were still in it with our dead men in the trench, we had to sit on them the place was so crowded & shallow, all the time our chaps were working like Trojans to get the sap through, nothing much happened that night though they crept up close, & sniped a few of our men off, this is where we first came in contact with the bombs the Turks threw a couple that night at us but they fell short & done no damage, the next day to our great