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account of the cursed flies.
You ought to have seen the Turkish loop-holes they were riddled with bullets & directly behind them the timber was a mass of hole's, which proved beyond the shadow of a doubt the accuracy of our rifle fire, I guess there were a few killed in those trenches before the capture of them, Lone Pine trenches were nothing more than a warren there were trenches running everywhere, & we were constantly getting bushed in them, the second night in there when the bombing was so bad our fellows were getting cut to pieces for want of them, the cry was more bombs "more bomb's" & I was one of a chain who were passing them as fast as ever we could & we were wondering how much faster they were using them, than we
could pass them, we all thought it funny that they were being used so fast, for we couldn't send them any quicker at last some one noticed that we were handling the same bags over & over again, it appears that we were passing them round & round in a circle all through some officious sergeant who would not let them down a certain sap, he got into a nice row over that for it nearly lost us the position.
The wounded in Lone Pine" had a very rough time, the first lot had to lay in there nearly 24 hours, while they were cutting the sap through, how they must have suffered poor devils" we had 2 big communication saps nearly through before the charge, the engineers & our fellows had been tunnelling for weeks they were called B5, & B.8.