Item 03: Norman Thomas Gilroy war diary, 18 May-18 July 1915 - Page 13
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[Page 13]
lower behind the hills of an island it tinted their edge with a fine gold border. The sky surrounding was colored a deep cream, and the ridge of clouds that gathered a bright gold. With the sinking of the Sun a cool Southerly breeze arose.
Thursday 20th May 1915. This morning the Sea is even calmer than yesterday but the scene presented is not so beautiful, there being no islands to improve the bareness of the limitless ocean. Colonel Armstrong our passenger has been travelling about the Cape Hellis position for a couple of days. He told us that the point of attack made by the New Z'rs which was formerly named Gaba Tepe has been renamed in orders Anzag to commemorate the gallant behaviour of the troops
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