Thursday May 13th Ascension Day
We were up by 5.30 in the morning. The firing seemed to be as heavy & incessant as ever. A rumour had been circulated overnight that we were to go into the trenches at Quinns post today & we knew enough by this time to guess its significance though none could have imagined the content of experience for 3 months & lifelong memories that name would hold. You must know that our holding at Anzac in early days was roughly as a triangle with Quinns & Popes at the apex. The ground was most irregular in character.
It was only 690 acres of land. Think of it! & your imagination can fill in some of the details. Moreover only part of this ground was habitable for much was in direct observation & fire from the enemy. Now there must be such things as hospitals, incinerators, cemeteries etc etc & there were over two divisions of troops on Anzac! One is at a loss to know where & how they all dug in – particularly when trenches were
