Item 01: Gordon Macrae diary, 12 November 1914-4 January 1916 - Page 155
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October 1915
Monday 25th to Sunday 31st
The week was fine mostly, one or two showers & towards the latter end warm & cloudy. We got another lot of reinforcements 4 of the old men returned & we got 14 new ones mostly the 8th reinforcements. Our troop got none as we are fairly strong. Jack Garden, Charlie May Segt Beuzeville, Segt Smith & Sanders went away sick during the week. The Segt Major was appointed RQMS temporary & Segt Alford is SSM temporary. I kept on orderly sergt for the week Among the reinforcements was Bert Ekin of Kogarah who was put in C Squadron. We had a fairly quiet week. On Wednesday noon the Turks shelled us solidly for a while but we kept up a good supply of bombs to Abdul & must have made it fairly warm for him. We received our mail on Thursday & I got letters from mother &