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or nerve. They have lost their belly. Not that they have turned shirker but it has been knocked out of them. They have done all that men could do against great odds – they have proved themselves heroes. Contrary to my expectations they do not go on furlough but are being moved to another post in the field of operations – Table Top in left flank.
Russells Top at wh we are now stationed has been the scene of heavy & severe fighting. From here the 8th made their disastrous sorties. We have visual evidence of the result of this great charge in the long rows of Turkish & Australian dead that line the trenches not many yds. away. Leiut. Col White & Major Redford fell in this memorable fight & their the body of the latter has only just been recovered in a state of putrefaction for burial. There has been no armistice & the bodies of these brave leaders have lain rotting in the sun for days & days