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On the 25th our old friend the "Triumph" was sunk, we could see her quite plainly from where we were at that time (the Bluff) she overturned & her great red hull showed up so plainly, in about 10 minutes there was a swarm of destroyers & torpedo boats rushing all round her picking up the survivors with a pair of glasses we could see the men quite plainly hanging on to here, we all felt very sorry at her going down, for many a time when we were getting a hot time from the Turkish guns she would quieten them for us, I don't think they ever got the submarine that settled her.
And the following day my mate Young Duke was killed stone dead, he was sniping at the
time & Len was observing for him, & I was sitting down having my breakfast, when without any warning he fell at my feet, with half his head blown off, I got a terrible shock I can tell you, a bigger one than you have any idea of, I couldn't touch him, & called some one else in to take him away, I was a good bit down hearted for some time after this I know I got what things I could of his & sent them home to his people, as he asked me to do if ever he got knocked & Len went round to the orderly room & got his revolver which he promised him if ever he got knocked, poor Wagga was buried down by the beach & this much I know, that a clergy man read the burial service over him but try as I would I could