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The Southland" with the 21 & 23rd Battalions on board was torpedoed on the 2nd Sept. she was towed into Lemnos harbour in a sinking condition, there were about 16 men drowned including Colonel Linton. The next day there was a pretty heavy artillery duel & shells were flying like hail, they meant to hurt someone if possible.
On the 4th the 6th Brigade arrived & I can tell you it put heart into us for now we knew we were going to be relieved at last, everyone was as happy as could be, & the nights & day's seemed a terrible length 2 days after this the first of the 6th Bde came into Lone Pine" & we broke them in, & they gradually took it over from us, how fresh &
healthy they looked compared to us poor worn out lot, they reckoned we looked awful & so we did they lost a few men at once through being inquisitive poking their heads over the parapet in board daylight but they soon took a tumble.
On the 8th we handed over the Pine" to them & we filed out of her & no one was sorry, though she was pretty safe when we left her, we worked day & night improving the parapets building new trenches & communication saps putting new loopholes in & building bomb proof shelters towards the last the bomb were dealt with in a very practical way, we used to have a man at every post with a blanket & when ever a bomb lobbed in the