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slept as sound as ever I slept in my life, you might have read of chaps picking up live bombs & slinging them back at the Turks, well it is quite true, any amount of our chaps done this, it requires a bit of nerve I can tell you, but I think that is about the last thing the average Australian is lacking in.
A fellow gets some curious fancies into his head when being bombed heavily I remember what mine was as I crouched against the parapet with the rifle protecting my side as well as it would at one time 4 bombs fell in the trench just underneath the parapet where I was firing from, & as they lay there as it seemed to be me for an hour but in reality only a few second's, I thought they looked
like some monstrous animal with big green eyes & smoke coming out of its mouth, when they used to explode they would daze me for a minute by the concussion, my rifle saved me several times from getting a bad wound for pieces of bomb buried into the stock more than once while protecting my ribs, I got a few nasty gashes on my hand & leg one day from small pieces of pieric bomb.
On the 10th we came out of that Hell & in "Brown's Dip" I saw George Vaughan what a few we were compared to the lot as went in, we lost just on 400 men for 4 day's fighting you can imagine what kind of a state we were in after such a rough & tumble.
Our Artillery skittled a few Turk's before the charge for I saw any amount