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We had all expected to be in action before midnight but at 10 o'clock, when we had gained the saucer shaped crest of the pass, unexpected orders to bivouac were received. To the accompaniment of a Wagnerian Sonata of from hill batteries, natives & snipers we laid our wearied limbs on the hillside or on the sandy track & soon the most of us were in grateful sleep, profound & at times very musical. Wildron's Hill is where we are now camped.
Tuesday 24th Aug. 1915
My notes now must be brief. I have not the time to write in detail. We have been troubled with snipers a great deal & they have also used machine guns on us. Several of our crowd have been hit, especially when they go for water & one man in B Co. was fatally wounded. Borchell, our