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were blown to pieces after we got together what was left of us. made up the steep ridge & every now & again one of the boys would drop either wounded or killed. as they could play the machine guns on us. After going a few hundred yards up over the ridge & into a gully we were opened fire on & it was pretty warm too. So we at once layed down & opened fire in a thick brush where the firing seemed to come from After a few minutes it eased off & we made a sharp rush forward & got possession of it I came across a Turk laying wounded with his rifile laying beside him so I grabbed his rifle & broke the stock off it so as he could do no harm with it. After we got through the thick brush we had to climb a very steep cliff so we helped one another up. when we got to the top we were met again with heavy rifle fire but we charged over the ridge & got possession of it & facing us we could see the Turks in trenches ahead of us. here we kept under cover & took off our heavy packs as we