22nd September 1915

An Australian Brigade in Rest Gully, utilising waterproof sheets (ground sheets) above
their dugouts - thesesheets were highly sought after by the men on Gallipoli (as issued
by Will Sparkes, below).

[Courtesy of Project Gutenberg]

Wednesday 22^nd 

Very keen again. Winds just like our Westerly. Busy on fresh indents etc. Ordnance & Ground sheets.

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

Sept. 22

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

1000 No. 3 gun fired 4 rds. P.S. (range 915^x) at Bomb-proof cover on slope of PLATEAU 400, N. end of SURPRISE GULLY.  Sq. 68-B-6 in retaliation for enemy gun firing on LONESOME PINE.  Effect – Slight damage to cover.

1100 No. 3 gun fired 3 rds. P.S. at same target, also in retaliation causing further damage to bomb-proof cover.

1245 Earthworks under construction Sq. 55-K-5.

15.40 Old communication trench on forward slope of GUN RIDGE being improved Sq. 68-N-6.

17.10 Party of about 100 Turks observed passing down communication trench into “Boomerang Trench”.  Reported to 9^th Battery.  Similar parties are generally noticed about this time daily either passing into or going from “Boomerang Trench” + are evidently reliefs.

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