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4 July 1915
Sunday 8 wks of go
Out of the 10 letters I got 3 from Nell & 4 from home everything is great at home thank goodness, nothing much happened through the night just the usual rifle fire, we blew up [indecipherable] last night at 10 & this led to a friendly exchange of lead, we were down at 701 again this afternoon & were just in time to see the French explode 7 mines & then converge all their arty on to the ridge to the L of Achi, it presented a beautiful sight especially at sundown (golden) over at the back of imbros, we watched a Turkish Bn move from Gaba to Achi & not a shot was fired at them, the beach on which we were supposed to land has 6 rows of barb out of the water & at least another 3 in the water this extends right under & past the fort, so I guess we would have struck rich. Got a letter from Norm his doing OK & Wags gives me latest news from [indecipherable]
5 July 1915
Monday 37 wks from home
The Turks gave us a rather rude awakening this morning for they had all their guns including a new howitzer they had brought up through the night with this they were feeling for our 6" how but no such luck, late last night they dropped a Jack J on to the depot but did no damage After lunch we went for the usual swim, after which we strolled up to the observation post & spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon first thing of note was 2 Regts of the enemys [indecipherable] & no sooner had we sighted them than our howitzers opened fire with lyditte 2 shots fixed them up then they shelled the road for hours. The trawlers meanwhile were having a little game of their own out to sea, & after a while we saw a submarine under the water using her Deisel engines the exhausts threw a column of water 3 ft high & 100 feet long she was using both her Deisel & elect motors trying to get away as two trawlers had her in a net. Monitor accompanied by a aeroplane started to shell hill 701 with howitzers