Item 04: M.C. Evans war diary, 4 November 1916-16 June 1917 - Page 80
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We got into a little dip in the ground next Bgde. H.Qs. & remained there all the morning.
The attack proceeded & at about 2 p.m. our fellows got into the turks first trenches & - horrible dictn.! – were shelled out by our own artillery who were going hammer & tongs all the while.
At about 4 p.m. things got very willing & we were having a lot of casualties. I went out with another, Robertson – not the same as at Romani – to go up to the support trench. We had not gone half a mile across the flat when Robertson stopped one in the groin & fell off his horse. We bundled him into the sand cart, it being too exposed there to dress him & went on.
I was riding the other side of him thus making the second time that a Robertson has stopped a bullet that would otherwise have stopped in me.