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He 18 l eaving the dirt and disease f a r behind him, and the wound i s ve Icom ed 1/,8
til passpor-t , We never sympathize w1th any cha p vho et.er-t.e his jour ney homeward
because of II. " cr-a ck'" , 'rie call him II j olly l ucky" , an d pr-ay f or one yourself. My
first ex perience of a coebfned boabardmerrt of nava L lind land guns came on night
vh e n we were Lea at expe c t dng 1t , A'IJay over the Anz ac Cove the filme etar-ted I
neve va s ' rece ived of the Brit ish vi ctory a t LO OB an d t he Aus t r al i a n lind New
Zea b nd t roops chee r ed lIadly all along the line . The e ne my mistook the DolEC
for a night attack and their gun s Wen t 'tbunder-Lng right acr-oss t he front. Then
our field~ gc~·~_J.2,...ttd lhe-~~ -let f I,- . eeeees ef cn of br -oadefd e s ,
It W&5 a heavy bit of a demonstr ation an d made u s f ee l i ncline d f or a dash i nt o
the Turks. But we 'Were dooaed to df ssppcdrrtmerrt , The fir i ng gr-adua Lky died dovn ,
and 'I hour l ater the line \lUi non a l ; just the u su a L cracking of sniper s ' rifles
and a sca t t e r e d machine gun ner t r aversing over the Band baga , I am sur-e the
art i llery moen enj oye d the whole a f fa ir a e it "/fiS seIdca or ever they had t he
oppor tunity to put their f ul l force into the Turks . To me, in those days, it
seemed like a t.eIe of waterloo or sO'I1e other gr -eat, ec r -ap,
The va t e r- supply presented 1Il1l0y difficulties to all Regim ents. We had a ve Lk
for cooking purposes, bu t i f you r-anke d anyt hi ng und er a Br -fgadf er-Gener -sL it ve s
not necessary to waste t ime l ooking for a vaeh, The old ve If, situated near- the
she l l-sbatt e r ed remnant s of & Turkieb f arm house . was known f r om on e en d of SuviR
t o t he other
RS R ve r -It .abke deat.b- Er -ep• and many a poor lad went t he re to se e k
va t e t- for his Comp&ny and neve r r-et .r-une d , Little wonde r crosses near- the well
mar k the r e s t i ng pkac ea of un f ortunates vho c ame for the pr ecious fluid a t t he
vr-ong time . Gunne r and Sniper had their cr ack at the ...,-.. t or pa r-tdee , 8 0 we dunk
Le a s and helped to spa r-e the l i ve s of many ,
00 0 f ine morni ng a n office r came up lind a cqua dtrted me that I ve s II. " bomber"