Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/18/1 - October 1915 - Part 7

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
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  • Documents and letters
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[[Shorthand]] climbing [[Shorthand]]
We[[Shorthand]]  4 & searched [[Shorthand]] 3 Turks
[[Shorthand]] They [Shorthand]] sneak away
& we shot them [[Shorthand]] 1k [[Shorthand]]
all running x Mr Smith [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] opposite, [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] went 9. on x Mr Smith
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to be x I got up - [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] left [[Shorthand]]
saw 30 [[Shorthand]]
a big shell [[Shorthand]] Agamemnon
The valley is [[Shorthand]]  6 ws on the
Southern slope of it x The [[Shorthand]]
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& smashed the sights down & took
the clinometers [[Shorthand]]
chipped [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] hands
[[Shorthand]] kit, clothing
blue vest, hurriedly abandoned - the gun team
ws lying about dead & a lot of dead Turks.
Those [[Shorthand]] may have
been a shell [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] ahead of us. We cd
see a few Turk straffers ahead x
We were on the [[Shorthand]]
& the gun ws [[Shorthand]] I worked
up more to the right x
[[Shorthand]] in the
scrub [[Shorthand]] a number of men
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They [[Shorthand]]
[Shorthand]] (Gaba Tepe) [[Shorthand]]
Brand [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] As soon
as Maj. Brand had gone I [[Shorthand]]
 

 

 

Hand drawn diagram - see original document
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[[Shorthand]] & had got [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] when I ws hit c a bullet - sniped
On going [[Shorthand]] 400 [[Shorthand]]
platoon [[Shorthand]] They were c Daisy
Patch digging in at tt time on
E side.
——
Corpl. J.C. Weatherill
Scouts, 10. Bn, D Coy. w Lt Talbot
Smith -
A m.g. ws on top of Maclagans -
It ws on tripod. Smith s a Turk as
they were running. We pulled it off
tripod & threw it over cliff at back
abt 20ft. It ws on / corner in trench
& we had seen / flashes. [[Shorthand]] m.g.
in the knoll close down to [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] Dwinsk
Vilna [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]]
Lake Norogkx [[Shorthand]]
 

 


[[Shorthand]] H.Q. [[Shorthand]]
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[[Shorthand]] Vimy? Vitz - [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] 3000 [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]]
——————
4 oct. Rassie [[Shorthand]] Bulg.
[[Shorthand]] 24 [[Shorthand]] Turks [[Shorthand]]
——————

Paris: [[Shorthand]] Souchez & Givenchy wood
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[[Shorthand]] Champagne [[Shorthand]] Mesnil [[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] At Snippes Valley -
[[Shorthand]] artois
[[Shorthand]] vosges
[[Shorthand]]
[[Shorthand]] Luxembg
[[Shorthand]] Communique [[Shorthand]]
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Petrograd Comm. [[Shorthand]]
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See: -
1st Day Trail 8th
Mason 11th
Griffiths of Canterbury
——————
9 Bn.
C. G. Ball B Coy. 1923
Son of W. Ball, S M Herald.
 

 

 

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