ry fire
stopped, certainly directed a very heavy fire on his trenches, and we
can only assume that the Turkish infantry was suffering from "cold feet"
on account of this. Our casualties were practically negligible.

During the bombardment, an amusing incident took place with Buchanan's
servant, Inglis, who was very deaf. This deafness increased with the
climate of the Peninsula, but no one imagined that it had increased to
such an extent as we found out that day. Inglis had gone to draw water
at a neighbouring well before the bombardment started, and later, when
the Turkish artillery fire was about at its height, was discovered
strolling along the support in the most unconcerned manner with a bucket
of water in his hand. Another of the servants, Kirk, who had been left
at "B" Company Headquarters in one of the communication trenches, was
found after the bombardment lying on the ground with a dud shell close
to his feet. This shell, Kirk explained afterwards, had arrived a few
minutes before, and striking the parapet of the communication trench
some distance away, had ricocheted and landed with a thud and a cloud of
dust beside him. He was still in the state of being uncertain whether he
was alive or not and was very glad, when spoken to, to find that he was
able to reply.

A certain amount of repair had to be carried out on these trenches which
had suffered from the bombardment and this kept us busy for the
following days. After which we were relieved and moved back to reserve
trenches. A message was received by the C.O. from the Corps Commander
congratulating the Battalion on its steadiness during the "attack."

Life on the Peninsula was now becoming very uncomfortable owing to the
weather conditions. We had many days of rain, and the Gallipoli soil is
of a peculiar clay nature which sticks to one's boots when wet and is
very difficult to remove. We had not even the luxury of roofed dug-outs
in many places and had to do the best we could to shelter ourselves by
means of our waterproof sheets.

The last few days of the month the weather changed again and we had
several days very severe frost, which put us to our wit's end how to
keep warm. Everyone wore as much clothing as they could possibly get on
and some of us must have presented a very funny appearance. None will
ever forget Major Findlay appearing at the C.O.'s Orderly Room with a
Balaclava helmet on to keep him warm and a glengarry perched on the top
of it wi