Item 01: William Sparkes diary, 9 June 1915-5 January 1916 - Page 24
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[Page 24]
simply delightful. There was a bit of shooting at our gun pit early in the evening. To-day I am in charge of guard over Prisoners. Not a pleasant piece of work. The guard has the worst part of it having to stand out in the sun etc and see they do their work.
I have never seen such persistent flies as these Turkish breed. They settle in your bread and jam on your tea dixie mess tin & stick like lice.
It is wonderful how callous one is now to the flying bullets & the splashing shrapnel.
The strapping of our prisoners to the wheel was not a very enviable piece of work.
Two female mules [?] belonging to some Turkish farmer wandered round behind our firing line & seemed perfectly at home. The part round our Battery cook house seemed a very attractive [Indecipherable] to them.