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saps & trenches & lost the good men the Brigade numbered about 800 in spite of the 6 lots of reinforcements we had received.
About 12 o'clock that night we set off for the beach, old Beachy Bill was sending a few in now & again just by way of pastime, it would have been stiff luck to have stopped one just then but one fellow did get hit about a mile out to sea the bullets use to travel a long way out, we all got aboard about day light the 1st & 2nd Batt. were on the one boat "Partridge she had to her credit the sinking of the V.15, she was a very fast little boat, the crew treated us well on her, the morning was a bonzer nice & sunny, we all lounged about on deck, from
Anzac" to Lemnos was a distance of some 40 miles & we carved it out in about 2 hour's.
As we entered Lemnos a destroyer led us through the nets for the entrance is netted against submarines, once into the harbour we were right, the bay was just crowded with shipping including the Aquitania" the biggest ship in the world at present sailing.
By Jove she looks an enormous size & has 4 immense funnels that you could drive a railway engine through with ease, the Mauretania" was also there converted to a hospital ship, & hundreds of other ships were anchored there a lot of them were loaded with ammunition for Russia, & were waiting for the Straits to be forced, they will have a long