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9/11/15
Rain had peculiar effect on acoustic properties of this place. After first shower machine gun fire sounding like pom poms, ordinary rifle shots like the same, bombs also shells every sound magnified and rather alarming at first. Ground very hard
10/10/15
0430 . Stars bright tried to pick up Great Bear and Orion but unsuccessfully in the few seconds I had to spare. [indecipherable] used we are to the rifle fire. At present the place is reverberating with rifle discharges. rumbling down the valley but one does not notice it After the first day or two
Extracts from diary of captured Turkish officer
24th August Arrived At Ouzoun Keopho. We will remain here until evening. We are about 200, the majority ghazi, even some of the men have not yet their wounds healed and they are gallant who run to avenge
25 Aug We reached Kara Pinah at 6 hours instead of 7.30. This is a Christian village and the laziness of the inhabitants is understood from the fertile but uncultivated ground.
1 Sep 1915 There is tea every morning and regular food. There are always olives and raisins. This regularity I had not seen at school
2 Sep 1915 In firing line are instruments for seeing closer without being seen. I had hardly lifted instrument when bullet broke it. This welcome not too pleasant. I am careless of the dum dums bursting round me
4 Sep Bomb dropped from aeroplanes cause us great damage. The men have left everything to God and expect to be killed every moment. Machine guns firing from enemy trenches only 30 metres away deprive us of many of our dear comrades. My ears are deafened, the ships ceased firing, with fixed bayonets we await enemys attack
5 Sep Our battalion will take over the trenches today. I say that our part was safer than the other because while on the right the opposite trenches are almost touching each other, our distance is about 150 metres