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was said by the men. Old hands who had toiled & bled in the gullies over which they had watched so long, who had seen comrades & brothers killed, felt the matter keenly & later reinforcements who had had their mates shot down in cold blood at their posts, murmured for a chance to avenge them. It felt like running away as one glanced down seaward & saw the little white crosses dotting the hillsides a feeling of resentment for the move & a sudden anger against those who had bungled the Gallipoli campaign right from the start spread over one. Officers Kits were sent to the beach & on Tuesday 13th I received orders with two others to pack up for embarkation & proceed with Chaplain McAuliffe's effects to the Beach. Sneaking down to the sap, dodging by graveyards, silent but accusing, we reached the beach. Piles of broken stores, ammunition limbers & surplus supplies lay scattered everywhere. Men drowned their sorrows in the broken rum barrels; Indian A.M.C. with their carts & mules laden with munitions &c. to be shipped