I believe that Buchanan got back to the parapet of our '*' trench & inquired if Sam had returned & on learning that he had not himself went back to search for him only to join his mate in death. '*' We had hopped against hope that they might be prisoners of war. I looked particularly but in vain for their bodies on Armistice Day. I suppose they died & were buried in some unknown grave on the Turkish side. What matter? We can rejoice:- "That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever" - Australia
trench which was of crescent formation with comparatively little opposition & then ere they could consolidate enfilated them heavily with well-trained machine-gun fire. When Captain Birkbeck found the party reduced to he gave orders to retire & it was a miracle any escaped alive. Lieut Ogilvy must have had a charmed life.
It was a ghastly morning. One can see the faces of the survivors now as they filled down the gully. That of Squadron Sergt Major Wasson who had nursed those men into soldiers was a study. It seems invidious to make distinction among such heroes but for the general high regard they were held in the Regiment one must mention Trooper J. C. Sams & C. G. G. Buchanan two mates from the Central-West of Queensland & in build, brain & promise of the best that State could give.* Already we felt sad gaps in a Regiment where regimental feeling was more like family attachment.
That day 3rd L.H. Regt went into Quinns with the Infantry. Among the other casualties that memorable night were :-
