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Gallipoli Diary

Tuesday 16th June 15

Tuesday 16th June 15

Returned for 24 hrs duty at
QUINNS' at 9 am. Fairly quiet day.
Turks have erected heavy timber
head cover over parts their trenches
last night. They also tried new dodge
of rolling high explosive bomb towards
our trench and exploding it with
rifle fire but so far have not got
them near enough to damage us.

page 89

Today detached 6 men to form
part of escort of Wellington Battalion
men for Sir Ian Hamilton while
ashore at Imbros. General Godley
visited our Post. today and went
through the trenches — on all fours, as
they are not very deep for men over
6 ft. Our miners have again
discovered enemy tunneling near
us underground in front of the
trenches. At 10 pm I sent out two
men to reconnoitre on my immediate
left towards enemys trenches. Each
man carried a hand grenade in addition
to rifle & bayonet. They were quite suc-
cessful
in getting desired information
and then for a time watched the
enemys trench from a distance of 10
to 15 yds. On seeing 2 Turks get
up to the parapet and begin to work
adjusting sandbags etc. they fired
each getting his man. Immediately
afterwards they hurled their bombs
which exploded right on the hostile
trench, then they made back safely,
being under cover of an old trench.

The Turks immediately opened fire &
sent up two rocket flares but to no
purpose and the incident closed.