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Gallipoli Peninsular
Feb. 16th 1919
Dear Mick
We are at last under canvas having moved over from Chanak to Kilid Bahr spending an afternoon and night at a Turkish Hospital camp, now occupied by the French. We moved on yesterday with the full marching outfit mule teams in and limbers, pack mule, chargers & the whole issue; quite a picturesque little lot and we are now camped on ground on occupied by the Turk during the operations. It was a great disappointment to learn that the 7th L.H. and the Canterburys had returned to Palestine, but fortunately there are two L.H. officers still left with a small unit engaged in grave registration & photography & they are doing everything in their power to assist us, so that in a few days we shall be properly fixed.
While camp was being established yesterday afternoon I rode with Bean & Wilkins over the Turkish trenches across no mans & along the front of ours, & one gets the situation at a glance. At one place only about 30 yards between the opposing jacko & us,