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a single squib among them, they were with their men all the time, & turned up trumps. There was rather a funny little incident when we rushed the death-trap trench, in our company we had a big tall chap "Baby Bliss we named him, he was 6 ft 3 in high & weighed a trifle of 23 stone, well when we got into one section of the trench we had to crawl through a small hole just large enough for a man of ordinary size, to get into another part of it, most of us got through alright, & it came to Baby Bliss's turn he got half way through, & then he got stuck, & could neither go forward nor back, & we had to dig him out. The snipers were very bad about this time & parties were sent out after them they got small mercy when our chaps
caught them, they would run the bayonet through & through them, Shrapnel Gully was a terrible place for them as they could see right down it from their position we had to build great barriers of sandbags, & the men had to go up it in little rushes from barrier to barrier, even then scores of them were killed.
About 10 days after the landing Wagga arrived, he had stiff luck for he was taken bad 2 days before we left Mena & had to go to hospital.
The days here at this time were nice & warm, though the nights were very cold, & we had no blankets as yet only wet & cold dugouts but still there was no grumbling to talk about. I think the sunsets here are the prettiest I have ever seen, the sun used to set between 2 islands, "Imbros" & "Samothrace"