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We had 5 guns that I know of knocked out during this battle 4 field guns & 1 howitzer blown to piece's
On the night of the 14th August the Turks made a bomb attack on the section of trench our platoon were holding but it speedily fell through I think we dropped most of them with rifle fire, we saw them come out quite plainly for we always keep a very strict lookout at this time we were using nearly all jam tin bombs made by ourselves they are very effective if they lob in among men, but are dangerous to handle for sometimes they don't look to be alight, & all the time are burning we had a good few of our men killed with these for a time, until they started to poision the fuse's which meant putting gelignite down the fuse so as
you could see it burning, they were mostly 5 sec. bomb. Our guncotton bomb was a snifter, the concussion from them would do the trick, if the Turks were troublesome in certain parts we would send them over a slab (like a lb of butter on a pat) & that would stop them. On the 17th. we held a meeting in Gun Lane" called by Colonel Dobbin to celebrate the first anniversary of the forming of 1st Battalion, while the speeches were on, the shells were flying about pretty heavy, but we were pretty well used to them by this time & did not take much notice of it, at the conclusion every one of the old hands had a tot of rum & some packets of cigarettes issued to them, & all drank success to the Battalion, the next day the father of the Battalion