Page:George Green - 2nd Light Horse Regiment Gallipoli Volume 1.djvu/47

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During the operations 6-8 Aug a tin box was found at a captured Turkish Headquarters & therein was the missing pay book with treasured personal photographs.

Saturday May 29th is a memorable day Perhaps it is best to transcribe from my diary written at the time .

"Captain Luther awakened me at 3 a.m. saying "There's something doing on Quinns" By Gosh! so there was. From then till now 10 a.m. there was a continual procession of wounded. Surely I will never forget the sight. For courage I can imagine nothing finer than these men.

There had been mining & counter-mining these past few days & this morning the enemy got in first. The theory is that they had been mining under our sap for