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The machine gun man who is just alongside me now, had his periscope smashed in his hand, but wasn't touched. All I got was a shower of dirt. Away in our rear, the Indians tried to get a mountain Howitzer up a steep path, but I saw one shell hit it fairly and bowl it down the slope. Were It has been touch & go on our left flank, across a steep valley, several times, and our fellows have been forced to retire, but reinforcements arriving have made their way back. This is a good thing for us, for if they get that ridge & enfilade us, it will knock most of us out. At present three of us are jammed together in a small trench right on the crest, and when not firing keep our heads pretty low, for the bullets whiz without cessation just above our head.
26th April 1915. It has been a trying night, and a trying day to follow. Last thing we saw last night was our chaps charging across a plateau to our right. and it Across a green patch in the centre of this we could see the lines of men in extended order double & the setting sun reflected gleams of silver from the bayonets.