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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Open for review
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RCDIG1066795
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5 ^ a 2 862 tron 84 Sgmery e6 132 C 3 ssoel F 30 & - 2 merr p0t Sie 4 3 24 32008 6.9 To 1 Es24 70 Ic 3 5oS 9.8 OH O 66 Sec. 8i trail 111 Day Mason 11th griffitts of Canterbur TBn G. Ball B log. 1925 Son of w. Ball. Im Higald.


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We 4 & searched
3 Turks
They sneak away
& we shot them 1k
all running x Mr Smith
opposite
went 9. on x Mr Smith
ought
to be x I got up
left
saw 30
a big shell Agamemnon
The valley is 6 ws on the
Southern slope of it x The
 

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& smashed the sights down & took
the clinometers
chipped
hands
kit, clothing
blue vest, hurriedly abandoned - the gun team
ws lying about dead & a lot of dead Turks.
Those may have
been a shell
Ahead of us. We cd
see a few Turk straffers ahead x
We were on the
& the gun ws I worked
up more to the right x
in the
scrub a number of men
They
(Gaba Tepe)
Brand
As soon
as Maj. Brand had gone I 
 

 

 

[map without notation]
971
 

 

55
[par. of mainly shorthand]
& had got
when I ws hit c a bullet - sniped
On going 400
platoon They were c Daisy
Patch dipping in at tt time on
E side.
——
Corpl. W.C. Weatherill
Scouts, 10. Bn, D Coy. w Lt Talbot
Smith -
A m.g. ws on top of Maclagans -
It ws on tripod. Smith a Turk as
they were running. We pulled it off
tripod & threw it over cliff at back
abt 20ft. It ws on / corner in
& we had seen / flashes. m.g.
in the knoll close down to

[inverted par mainly shorthand]
Dwinsk
Vilna
Lake Norogk.
 

 


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H.Q.
Vimy ?
Vitz
3000 25
——————
4 oct. Rassie Bulg.
24 Turks
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Paris: Souchez & Givenchy Wood
Champagne Mesnil
At Snippes Valley -
artois
vosges
Luxembg
Communique

Petrograd Comm.
[end shorthand]
 

Sec: -
1st Day Trail 8th
Mason 11th
Griffiths of Canterbury
——————
9 Bn.
C. G. Ball B Coy. 19235
Son of W. Ball, S M Herald.
 

 

 

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