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17th had a visit from a Turkish aeroplane this evening, she dropped 2 bombs one fell in the sea, & the other done no damage, you can hear & see a bomb coming down quite plainly, but you have no idea where it is going to land, they dropped a few bombs at different times containing darts they are nasty things, & it dosn't pay to get hit with them, we also had a few 11 inchers over, but they done no damage beyond blowing up the signalling stores.
18th Things are coming to a head fast we had another terrific bombardment from the Turkish howitzers, it is wonderful what a small amount of damage they have done, they put 40, 6 inch shells within an area of 100 yards on our trenches this morning 3 batteries of R.F.A. landed here with 5 in. howitzers.
19th We had some walloping shells
shot at us to-day, & one of them tried to assinate assasinate me in my dugout so I lost no time in getting out of it
On the 22nd we had a 3 days "stand to" that meant that we had no sleep for that time, we were expecting an attack from the Turks, as it was the date of the feast of "Ramadan", but nothing came of it we were prepared for a gas attack as well we had not received any mail for just on 6 weeks, at this time, a lot of it had been sunk, mail day was quite an eventful day in the trenches, & I can tell you letters were appreciated & looked forward to nothing of any interest happened beyond the usual routine, & sniping for 10 days when a Taube caused a flutter by dropping 2 big bombs on our Coy's lines but luckily no one was hurt.
On the 1st August the 3rd Brigade