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 receiving wounded – some forty yards from our front trench. Quinns Post was a steep ascent of about 150 yards – and at the top, as I was able to verify with my own eyes on the Day of Armistice, our front trench was at one point only 15 yards from that of the Turks. So it had been on the day of landing so it was on the day of evacuation. But at what a cost. Part of the price was to be paid that very afternoon by some of the 2nd Regt. [We took over from the 15th Btn at 2 in the afternoon] Furthermore the situation was made more perilous by the fact that our communications trench connected our position with that of the Turks! Neither side had been able to fill it in & it remained a menace to each others operations.

In this sector we took over from the 15th Battn at 2 o'clock that afternoon.I was at that time under tutelage of Captain Luther seeing to the burial of a man who had been lying dead for a day or two on the slope just behind