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issue this morning – which just saved our lives as it was very cold with a strong breeze blowing: dug out the regiment about 3.15 am, moonlight: in the support trenches the ledges & holes are small (unable to make bigger ones as the hill gets too much cut about) & the men getting out look like those big white bugs one sees in holes in green logs; just fit. – – – – –
I don't think I told you the way Bean the correspondent was saved the same morning – He was up on the Post & nearly became a "has been" – A bomb was thrown by a Turk & missing all trenches, rolled down the communication sap in front of him & under two stretcher bearers carrying a man down. They noticed it & promptly dropped the stretcher down as these bombs have good spreading effect. The body was blown in half – mostly over Bean –
The Post referred to is called in the official map the "Bloody Angle – & it is nothing now but a dust heap on the top with Turks & Australians continually digging saps through & bombing one another. Day & night the explosions are going on about 100 yards from our flank. Many men have had their hands & arms blown off in