Members of the Egyptian Labour Corps, under the supervision of AIF
soldiers,
digging graves at one of the many cemeteries in the Anzac
area.
[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - H16579]
Sunday
3rd October
The morning opened hazy and sultryTemperamental inability of the Germans to
understand decent behaviour
I went along to Ordnance. Very hot journey. Coming back I saw Major Griffiths and had chat also went up to Capt Jack Fitzgerald to bid him Au Revoir as he was to leave next morning. He showed me a bank demand order which had been found on one of our men who had been killed. The papers had an awful stench as he had been dead some time before his body was recovered.
On the beach now there are parties of Greeks, Maltese, and the awful Egyptian chaps. One had thought that the last had been heard of the monotonous lilt of their chorus as they worked but no it must follow one across to Turkey.
The morning opened hazy and sultry
I went along to Ordnance. Very hot journey. Coming back I saw Major Griffiths and had chat also went up to Capt Jack Fitzgerald to bid him Au Revoir as he was to leave next morning. He showed me a bank demand order which had been found on one of our men who had been killed. The papers had an awful stench as he had been dead some time before his body was recovered.
On the beach now there are parties of Greeks, Maltese, and the awful Egyptian chaps. One had thought that the last had been heard of the monotonous lilt of their chorus as they worked but no it must follow one across to Turkey.
[Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - William Sparkes diary]
Oct. 3
(Lieutenant Sydney Francis Hodgens, temporary O/C 7th Battery)0820 No. 3 gun fired 3 rds. P.S. (at range of 915x) at bomb proof cover, slope of PLATEAU 400, N. end of SURPRISE GULLY, Sq. 68-B-6 in retaliation for enemy gun firing on LONESOME PINE. Effect – Portion of cover knocked down.
0820 Small parties seen entrenching on crest of OLIVE GROVE, 56-Q-4.
16.00 Gun observed firing at Monitor 47-I-1. Engaged by Howitzer + 9th Bty.
1725 Helio signalling observed taking place between “Redoubt” 47-M-3 and white houses 48-N-6.
1315 Gun from OLIVE GROVE SQ.56-Q-4 shelling BEACH
1520 do do do do
1550 Gun from WESTERN END of OLIVE GROVE shelling Monitor
Two Monitors and
our Heavy Artillery shelled OLIVE GROVE and country to south thereof.
1725 Hostile aeroplane going North.
Very quiet on RIGHT FLANK to-day.
1725 Hostile aeroplane going North.
Very quiet on RIGHT FLANK to-day.
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