Item 01: William Sparkes diary, 9 June 1915-5 January 1916 - Page 70
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[Page 70]
till 3am when the fire gradually eased down. Outside of a jam of our breach and the siege lamps not giving satisfaction our arrangements went well. Several big mines were fired by our Engineers at the commencement of the action and the report of the explosion was tremendous. We heard that a number of Turks were buried beneath the fall of earth where the mines were fired.
Sunday 1st August 1915.
This morning we had a fair idea of the casualties of the engagement and on our side about 20 were killed & 80 wounded. In our own unit we were fortunate and escaped without a loss. How the enemy fared we could not say to any definite extent but their losses must have been considerable. We expected to have a big counter attack this morning but it was a quiet