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as we used to call him Major Davidson was badly wounded & died a few days after he was a very fine fellow & popular with us all his death cast quite a gloom over the Batt. for he had been right through up to then.
On the 19th the 17 & 18 Battalion's landed, I went down to see if I could find a chap who worked on the same station as I did, but could not find him, my word" they were a fine body of men, so noticeable to after the English troops that we used to see about Suvla & Anzac" they were the first Battalions to land of the 2nd Div. though some of their reinforcements were there before their Batts, & we had them in Lone Pine", gathering all the old rifles ammunition equipment & such like
On the 21st there was a very violent bombardment & heavy rifle fire on our left, our chaps & N.Z.s captured a fine well & about 300 rifles & a few prisoners that day, how the Colonial troops stood out on their own during that fierce month of battles (August) both in dash, resourcefulness, daring & pure bull-dog tenacity, the world knows, & its not over-rated either
24th news reached us to-day of the cutting up of the 18th Batt. in a charge they were not long before they were in it, they & the Gurkhas were together the Gurkhas are fine little soldiers they are very much like a Chinaman they have their features, all they think about is getting to close quarters with the enemy, they then throw their rifle away & pull