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& cold with driving rain. News through today which appears to be correct that 3 British boats have been lost in the Dardanelles the "Indomitable" Invincible (Battle Cruisers) & Ocean – an old boat – beside a French boat. Carried on with work as usual although it is Sunday (written in bed listening to the wind & rain driving onto the tent)
22-3-15 Nothing unusual today. Work going on as usual. Sapper Sutherland & I went with Col: Liverick & [indecipherable] Mather to inspect water supply We expect to lay about ½ mile piping for supply shortly.
23-3-15. No. 1 Sec: had leave today Cpl Bird Spr Cridland Gatty-Smith & I, had a stroll across the Island to the sea board in an Easterly direction. Saw a couple of villages we had not seen before. We also saw the wreck of the Destroyer that was lost a couple of nights ago. R.E.s leaving to-morrow. No. 3 back again but did no work.