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<p class="page" id="a2364014">[Page 14]</p><p>and about 5.30 same evening amidst great excitement they were seen advancing from the rear of the Turks trenches with fixed baynots. So after we had kept the turks busy and allowed our other Battalions to get around and advance on them from the rear we were ordered to cease fire and they done the rest without much trouble. It is my first day here in the firing line and in the midst of what they say here as one of the hottest battles they have had here yet and likely to last a week or more I quite realise what war is It is dreadful the sights seen in the trenches bodies lying on top of one another blown to pieces with shells the wounded being carried out past you under heavy fire while you are</p>