8th September 1915

1:20,000 Map Grid Reference Square 68, showing Ryrie's Post, Holly Ridge, Tasmania

Post, Leane's Trench, Valley of Despair, Allah Gully, Silt Spur, Cooee Gully, Sniper's

Ridge, Surprise Gully, Wanliss Gully, Weir Ridge, Pine Ridge.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - RC04274]

Wednesday 8^th

Nice & crisp still. Fairly quiet. Still building up my store for Winter etc.

[Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - William Sparkes diary]

Sept. 8

(Captain William Charles Waite, temporary O/C 7th Battery)

Battery Observers reported considerable movement of transport animals along MAIDOS – KRITHIA Road.

1900 No. 3 gun fired 4 rds (2 Time Shrapnel Fuze 1.9, 2 P.S) at slope + crest of PLATEAU 400, N. end of SURPRISE GULLY (Sq 68-b-6) at ranges of 915^x + 950^x, in retaliation to enemy gun firing on LONESOME PINE.  Effective bursts of shrapnel obtained against a small party observed in one trench + parapets damaged.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - Official unit war diary, 7th Battery]