Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 112
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So much for sleeping & eating. Most of the fighting is done in the trenches. In some places they are 1500 yds apart, In others they are 21 feet. So in the latter cases life is all excitement. It is sap & mine & bomb & fusilade all the time. But there are signs the Turks have had enough. We have now been here (my brigade) 12 days & there is an obvious feeling of absolute security. They simply cannot -- bar accidents -- drive us into the sea, as Liman van Sanders said. So we are waiting confidently for the big move forward which will lead to Constantinople. We've seen fighting on land & sea, in the air & under the water. Sure its hardly safe to be alive. Aeroplane reconnaissance is a daily spectacle. Our airmen go aloft & have agood look at the enemy's position. The enemy's guns boom out al the time & shrapnel shells burst all round but somehow they never seem to hit the airship. Its a great sport watching the white puffs of smoke which show where the shells burst. Then the airships drop bombs on the Turks. Our boys call them "Throw downs". Sometimes the Germans drop bombs on us. We resent that, naturally