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Thursday Sept 30th
Taylor A Cm Killed bullet through head
75, lands 5 shells in our Circular trench Tommy Kelly blows half his foot off with bomb
Dr Pott leaves for Hospital Enteric
Saturday Oct 2nd
20,000 Gurkhas & New Founlanders arrive on the left, Essie's cake arrive heavy Howitzers play havoc with Turks trench. Monitor fires on Gaba Tepe lay barb wire in front heavy firing at Ache Baba, seven days rations come up
King of Greece betrays us
Monday Oct 3rd & 4th
Turks shell us in there trenches with Bayonets fixed, we all stand to, but they don't come, Gaba Tepe again bombarded,
Thursday Oct 7th
Attacked lone Pine, one of our lads kill 5 Turks and wound two with bombs, three lads shot while saving a Turk
Saturday Oct 9th
Turks use gas on the left, Bulgaria enters the war arena, Jim Merry killed by a bomb falling in his dug-out in old firing line,
Sunday 10th
Turk surrenders is shot in leg on Beach Turks fire on him. our stretcher bearers go for him at night our covering party fires on theirs we win