Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 147
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bagged any of the enemy or not. It rained last night & this morning. Not much but enough to trickle into our dug outs and make the trenches as difficult to walk in as the Black Soil Plains.
For some days the wind has been due west & strong so Anzac Cove presented a lively scene as the boats came in & out. 'Brighton Beach' where we swim now in the evenings was quite rough & it felt just like surfing and I thought of the good times I used to have surfing.....
The dirty dogs of Turks shell Anzac Cove so much that I at last thought that it was flying in the face of Providence to continue bathing there. So now Col R, Col A, Padre Miller Dr Evans, Major Onslow & I mostly have a swim at about 9 oclock at night. The twilight here is fine, and we can read until after 8 oclock.
A big mail arrived today about 50 bags but the mail for our brigade evidently remained in Egypt for we got nothing.
The sea is smooth as glass today & the rain has gone. It has set fair. The ordinary