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out their kukri a sort of knife they then grab the enemys bayonet with one hand regardless of cuts, & slash their heads off their shoulder's they put the fear of God into both German's & Turk's, they used to cut the Turks ears off & hang them up & one fellow they got on the hospital ship had a Turks head in his haversack, & he did not like parting with it either, they thought an awful lot of the Australian's & our chaps treated them well, they will take cigarettes from you, but the Sikhs won't, of course it is against their religion they are very funny people. At Anzac" they had goats which they used to kill themselves, & they done all their own cooking they will give you things but will accept very little in
return, they had a mountain battery there & done all the work with the mules when first we landed we had a lot of Armenian refugee's working the mules but they were all sent away I think they suspected some of them were spies.
The next day there was a terrific bombardment of Achi Baba, they used to give this place some awful hammerings, we could see the shells burst quite plainly from Anzac for we were perched up on high hills, Anzac" was easily the roughest & hilliest of the 3 landings the pictures & photos give only a faint idea of the steepness of the position we held its a wonder we were never pushed clean off it, but they had one good try & that satisfied them