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I saw several men sacrifice themselves here, they went to certain death, one chap in particular I remember, it came about in this way, we were chasing some Turk's round a little sap & they reached the bend first, everyone knew the first man round the corner was a dead one, but this chap never hesitated, he threw himself fair at them, & the six fired together, & fairly riddled him with bullets, that was our chance & we into them, & it was all over in a few minutes. Another little incident in these bloody trenches was rather a comical one for us but disastrous for the Turks, we had penned about 6 of them in a blind sap. & could not get at them without sacrificing life so we called on them to surrender & they answered us with shots, so after a bit of a conference we decided to get a
bomb, & use that little persuader on them one of the chaps got one & shot it in with such good effect that 5 of them were killed & the other bloke surrendered.
As we were getting over the parapet the man next to me was killed stone dead, & on the way across we lost a few more for they were still playing their machine guns & shrapnel on the ground between the trenche's, on the way over some of us got tangled in the barb wire & got nasty cuts, when we jumped down into the trenches I lobbed on something soft & on looking closer found that it was a dead Turk, the trenches were absolutely packed with them, a little further on we had 47 of them prisoned in a tunnel & Len was put guard over them, the mouth of the tunnel was sandbagged to prevent to many of them coming out at once, he had a rifle & revolver ready for them