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The ground between the trenches was simply covered with Turkish dead, there was a blind trench just in front of D. companys trench that was simply a mass of dead & wounded Turks, they let them get in there so as a machine gun could enfilade them but hanged if the machine gun didn't block after firing about 60 rounds, & the boys had to shoot them over the parapet, & never a man escaped.
The Light Horse never took no part in this scrap at all, they were in reserve in the gully, this was purely an infantry affair, though our artillery & Indian batteries done some fine shooting, the way the Indian batteries behaved on the first day
or so of the landing is beyond all praise, they suffered heavily too. The Indians of all tribes are on fine terms with the Colonials, & they think the Colonials are marvel's.
We had some Japanese bomb throwers in action here they used to throw a bomb weighing 28 lbs away up into the air & you could watch it coming down with the bomb throwing a shower of sparks behind it, like the tail of a comet, they were a deadly thing & done a lot of damage.
On the 22nd May the Turks hoisted the flag, & all firing ceased. General Walker went out with an interpreter to see what they wanted, they had come out to arrange an armistice, but they wanted 24 hours, & we would not listen to that of course, so they