Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 124
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General Sir Ian Hamilton. "I want you & more particularly your regimental officers & men who have not & cannot possibly have a wideview of the War Chest board in their ken to realize the full importance of the work they are making good at the hourly risk of their lives. To them it must seem a very inadequate reward to hold a few square miles of worthless scrubby mountain, but it is not so, & the maintenance of the position of Sari Bair may prove to be the fulcrum for the lever that will topple over [Germany?] and the pride of the Germans.
So thats what we are doing in this godforsaken patch of Gallipoli Peninsular. I cant tell anything of our numbers etc etc for the censor is again busy amongst us. But we believe that there are about 35,000 Turks up against us. We can manage them alright but the losses amongst our officers are very heavy indeed.
It is now Sunday. (Happy as sandboys). It is quieter than at any time since we landed. The Mediterranean is beautifully blue & calm as a sheet of ice. Here & there warships & destroyers glide along looking so peaceful & innocent. I just heard a couple of doves cooing