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for I was always so particular about the flies, I used to have my meals early in the morning, & then again at night, I never touched anything during the day.
13th July The Turk's shelled us pretty heavily today, & killed a few, & knocked our parapets about a good deal, on the next day I had the closest call of my life, & I have had a few, it had been a scorching day & in the evening I went down for a swim there were thousands in bathing, & the water was lovely, I had a good swim & was drying myself along with 4 others on an old barge, when without any warning, I heard a terrific bang & the next thing I knew was that I was laying on my back in the water, & I could hear someone singing out I scrambled out pretty fast you bet, & saw what had happened a shell had
burst fair on the barge, & 2 of the chaps were killed one of them a Dr in the 7th Light Horse had both legs blown off, there were also 4 others badly wounded, it was a terrible sight to see the legs & arms laying about, & hard as I was quite sickened me for a while, how on earth I escaped is a mystery to me for I was right among them, you may laugh at me, but I declare I felt the pieces of shell as they shot past me, that scared me for a while as I had seen so many accidents on the beach we were inoculated that day for cholera. The 15th saw another pretty solid bombardment, & it took me all my time to dodge them, for they fell pretty thick on our trenches, this evening there were no less than 5 aeroplanes up, the first couple of months we were here, our airmen used to drop a lot of bombs on the Turks