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put a rope round the Turks head or neck & drag him out that way, one of the parson's caught them doing this to one of our chap's, he stopped it at once & made them carry our dead out on a stretcher which was only right, often a mans head would pull off & then there would be a stink often & often I have been as sick as a dog when going into the Pine" trenches for it was nothing to see a mans leg's sticking out & flesh falling away from him in black lumps absolutely putrid talk about hum". As we were coming out of the Pine" Len picked up a ring & he has it to this day, though he has lost it several times, it has been found again. It was funny the morning after the charge (7th) to look down in Johnstones Jolly" & th see the confusion
that reigned down there men galloping about everywhere dogs barking men ducking for their lives for we were popping them over wholesale, the captured position overlooked it, & this was the Turkish headquarters they had quite a small town there, & I can assure you they found it pretty hot in 5 shots Len shot 2 mules & 3 Turks it was funny in one way there, 2 old Turks were coming down a little rise about 300 yards off & Len was waiting for them when they got to a certain part he let drive & dropped the mule & one fellow was pinned under him & the other run for his life, he let fly & sprawled him out lovely, by this time the other wily old Turk had got clear of the mule & was making a dash for a trench but he