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stories of the fighting yesterday, and it must have been pretty warm, to judge from all accounts. As far as can be judged the boa first boats landed yesterday morning under a heavy fire from three shrapnel & three machine guns on the beach. The enemy apparently expected us to land further north for they had a howitzer battery there. Anyway our boys fixed bayonets in the boats, and jumping ashore waded straight into the enemy. we They lost heavily but more boats coming in they stormed the hill under cover of the enemies warships guns & got the Turks on the run for a mile or so, but like many other engagements of this sort they overeached themselves & got cut up some by shrapnel. The warships hav firing line is now about a mile ahead, and the rattle of musketry is incessant ahead. The warships have now commenced firing again & the roar of the Queen Elizabeths guns, which is ofletting go is terrific.
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We are on our way to the firing line up a road cut by the Engineers in the side of a hill, & are stopping som half way up. A I f As we sat down a little buzz overhead made me