May 26
advanced outposts to a position in the No-mans-land between Popes & Walkers which may account for the sniping being extra bad this morning in the gully. He was peppering bullets all around our dugouts More than a dozen were hit in almost as few minutes. Twenty six were wounded by 10.30 a.m. two of our Regiment among them. Capt J. Macdonald, who was the Medical Orderly to 'Dad' Macartney, was shot through the leg but not seriously and Sergeant Alex. Glasgow – brother to our Major- received more dangerous wounds in the leg & wrist. Macdonald returned to us again on but Alex Glasgow was too severely wounded & by being invalided to Australia was lost to the Regiment.
This day (26 May) the Regiment went in to garrison Popes Hill. Here we were not in such close proximately to the Turk as at Quinns but had a valley roughly 70 yards across & on our left about it dipped to a depth of some yards while on the
