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attacked & captured a Turkish trench they had 70 casualties, very light considering the distance they had to cover, all the talk now was of our coming charge & everyone was looking forward to it.
3rd Had another pretty heavy bombardment this afternoon, which knocked a few more of our fellows out, we christened a few of the Turkish guns, some of the names ran like this, "Beachy Bill" of course takes pride of place, the most destructive gun on the peninsular, Percy Jone's a fairly silent fellow, "Harry Lauder a shell which used to sing as it come along, Asiatic Annie from the Chanak forts, a big shell which never done any harm, because it always landed very thoughtfully where there happened to be no one. Wheelbarrow
Jack, a big shell which used to be shot from a mortar, it was round like a football, & used to make a creaking noise on its way to the trenches, they done a fair bit of damage, at times.
And now I come to the morning we were relieved by the 5th Batt. so as to allow us to rest a few hour's before the charge came off, we were all moved out into "Gun Lane", & "Brown's Dip" & positions allotted to us, every one was as confident as could be.
The "Light Horse" started the ball rolling, by an attack at 5 oclock in the morning on a Turkish trench, which they took, but failed to hold they were driven out by bombs, & lost a good few men, the warships had not been idle, & along with out batteries, were making the Olive Grove