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There was very little doing for a long time after this, beyond the ceaseless digging, which never stopped, everyone was as lousy as a bandicoot, I had not changed my clothes for weeks, for the simple reason I had none, & nearly everyone was in the same street, water was as precious as gold, & quite as scarce, so a wash was out of the question, for at that time men could not be spared from the trenches, to go to the beach, there were such a few of us. On the evening of the 28th June the Turks rushed us suddenly, but they found us ready for them, & were beaten back easily in this scrap they lost over 300 men in killed alone, the Light Horse bore the bunt of this attack, & things were very unhealthy between the trenches for a while.
The next day we left for a week & well earned rest at "Imbros". I spent one of
the most enjoyable weeks there as ever I did in my life, I had a £ 1 or two, at the time, & we, bought plenty of milk nuts fruit & etc, & if ever we enjoyed those few articles well it was here, we had been without them so long, & it was a much needed change of food. It was summer time, & the weather was delightful every morning we used to walk ¼ of a mile to a lovely little ice cold spring & have a good wash, while the rest of the day would be spent in the sea, we were all sorry when our time was up, Imbros is pretty much the same sort of place as Lemnos. We were back again in the trenches on the 8th of July, & facing "Lone Pine", the weather was now frightfully hot, & the flies were in millions, it was almost impossible to eat your meals in the day time, the pests would swarm all over it, & even go into your mouth after it, they used to nearly drive me silly