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& part of the time their mountains were capped with snow, which would glisten & turn all colour's, with the sky as the sun went down, I used to sit & watch these sunsets for an hour at a stretch watch them turn from gold to pink, from pink to a pretty red, & from that to a lovely blue & gold tint, & it would finally go down in a deep red colour gradually fading away to a steel grey as twilight came on, this part of the world is renowned for its sunsets. Looking straight in front of us you could easily see the mountains on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles", while on our right was Kilid Bahr, the Olive Grove" Achi Baba, & Cape Helles, on our left the Salt lake, Sari Bair, Anafarta, & Suvla Bay. There was nothing of any importance happened, beyond
the 4th Battalion & us changing places in the line, & very hard work & plenty of it deepening the trenches, & cutting saps & gun positions, for our artillery, most of this work falls on the infantry, they are easily the hardest worked unit of the whole lot, & you can say that they do all the fighting, for all other units with the exception of the engineers, are beyond the firing line, & well to the rear some of them are, especially the A. S. C. & Artillery. On the 18th May of the first lot of Light Horse arrived, & they camped at the head of shrapnel gully that afternoon the Turks started the bombardment, & every time a Jack Johnson lobbed in our trenches they would cheer, & when one overshot the trenches, & fell in among them we would cheer, nice wasn't it & men