14th September 1915

Men of the 4th Australian Field Ambulance pushing wheelbarrows of dirt - "Digging

winter quarters Walden Grove" -  September 1915.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - P01116.030]

Tuesday 14^th 

I went to Ordnance to get officers clothing etc also to arrange about mules for drawing indent goods on the following day. Received note from Jack Fitzgerald our Field Cashier.

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

Sept. 14

(Lieutenant Sydney Francis Hodgens, temporary O/C 7th Battery)

07.15 No. 3 gun fired 1 rd P.S. at bomb-proof shelter, slope of PLATEAU 400, N. end of SURPRISE GULLY (Sq 68-B-6) at a range of 915^x knocking down a number of sand bags.  Firing was in retaliation for gun firing on LONESOME PINE.

08.45 No. 3 gun fired 6 rds P.S. at overhead cover (mentioned above 11.05, 13/9/15) breaking up a number of baked mud bricks rebuilt during night of 13/14 Sept.  Retaliation series for gun firing on LONESOME PINE.

10.45 Gun observed firing from OLIVE GROVE – Sq. 56-W-1 – Smoke very plainly seen, gun n neither gun or flash visible.

14.25 Smoke from Turkish gun firing from OLIVE GROVE – Sq. 56-Q-4 – Very plainly seen.  Gun was engaged by 9^th Battery.

18.15 No. 3 gun fired 3 rds P.S. at bomb-proof shelter – range 915^x – on slope of PLATEAU 400, N. end of SURPRISE GULLY (Sq. 68-b-6).  Retaliation for gun firing on LONESOME PINE.  Sandbags knocked down.

20.00 Party of 5 N.C.O’s and 15 men from Battery reported to Capt. Waite, 3^rd B.A.C., (who was in charge of a party from Divl. Artillery) + proceeded to Mudros for rest under his charge.

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