1st October 1915

Silt Spur on Anzac looking from the trenches on Bolton's Ridge, where the 7th Battery's

guns were located, showing the amount of entrenching done here - October 1915.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - G01064]

Friday 1st Oct 

This morning there is a thick mist enclosing all the ocean skirting the shores of our battle field zone. The Islands of the Agean see are shut out from view and all the ridges hardly visible – the air being so thick & hazy.

Saw Capt Jack Fitzgerald our Field Cashier and had long talk. He was over to pay any monies required by the different units.

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

Oct. 1

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

15.45 No. 3 gun fired 2 rds. P.S. (range 940^x) at Turkish Observation Station pointed out by 10^th Battalion observer – Sq. 68-B-6, in retaliation for enemy gun firing on LONESOME PINE.  Effect – Parapets damaged.

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

1.10.15

(Major Francis Augustus Hughes, temporary O/C 3rd Field Artillery Brigade)

1025 Gun firing from OLIVE GROVE.

1055 Small Gun firing on trenches round new Observation Station from position which could not be located.

Owing to atmosphere being misty to-day observation was difficult.

[Courtesy of Australian War Memorial - Official unit war diary, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade]