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31 May 1915
Monday (annotated 47) 32 wks from home.
Nothing happened last night they evidently want a little time to reorganize their forces. News came to hand that Bert Masters & the boys were to return to us today & I & a party were sent down to the Cove to meet them, I got just half way when I ran into them, we then had a swim, Tepe opened up & got Norm a beauty in the back, I carried him to the dressing station & got him fixed up he's goes aboard the hospital boat tonight, News to hand that Italy is at grips with Austria already & we have got two of their submarines & should have had the third only the tracker misunderstood the order to fire, one was rammed & the other was hemmed in, they then found it in one bay & are cruising round after it now we were to attack with the bayonet opposite Quinns but it was counter ordered & then things have to be thought of; NZealanders have taken over all of the L Horse posts today & it is rumoured that the Sig Section is coming to help us also. Go on duty at 10.30 PM again
1 June 1915
Tuesday
A little fun last night but nothing much only a little shrapnel as usual, another spy caught he was gunner on No 3 howitzer & was responsible for premature bursts he is charged with disobedience of orders, given range 700 3 & he was firing at 550 .2 so he is up against it [indecipherable] arrived back today from the [indecipherable]; 4th Inf Bde has been relieved by NZ's & can see trouble ahead for the Sigs. Another army corps has disembarked at Helsham so more jobs for the troop. Snipers gain busy & shot one man through the thigh & severed the artery. Downing who happened to be present put the digigital pressure on the leg & saved the chaps life. Aeroplanes round again but nothing doing at all. went for a swim & am still enjoying it even without shrapnel. Field bakery has been fixed up at Tenedos & bread is due in a day or two, Ammunition arrives by the boat load all calibres & both shrapnel & lyddite, sent for tarp but no luck