de,
and the right wing of the advance was assigned to them, and this they
still hold. From the point of Gallipoli to the top of Achi Baba is a
distance of 5 miles, and before we take that it is expected that
several thousand of our men will bite the dust.

The troublesome gun somewhere near Kum Kale has been more successful
to-day I hear, her bag being three men and nine horses on V. Beach.
Well do I know the whizz and thud of her shells--sounds all their own.
This gun is mounted either on rails behind rising ground, where she
can move sideways after firing a few rounds, or is on a disappearing
platform.

_May 5th._--The attack on Achi Baba was to have commenced to-day at 10
o'clock, but the first cannon roar was not heard till 11, when all
belched forth at the same minute. There seemed to be batteries
everywhere, the French 75's being specially noticeable all day, along
with some other field guns of theirs which had a peculiarly sharp
bark.

The Ambulance was unable to do anything till afternoon, when we got in
touch with the Regimental Aid Post of the Lancs. and with the Drake
and Plymouth Battalions, whose wounded we were responsible for. With
us all went well, although some stretcher squads I was with had a
narrow escape, two shrapnel shells bursting immediately over our heads
and kicking up a dust all round us.

Our transport men, who had nothing to do with carrying the wounded--by
hand at any rate--requested me to get them some excitement, and "the
hotter the better," and their deputy gave me a list of those eager for
this. I took them up the lines as far as we were allowed, and it was
with difficulty I kept them from going still further when they heard
that out in the open there were wounded who could not be reached by
the Regimental bearers on account of shrapnel. When we reached our
own front line we found there was a small party of men along a water
course still further out. Mainly for a "lark" we determined to go out
to these to see if they had any wounded. The water course was dry
except for green, stagnant pools, and coming on a deep and very filthy
one I decided to mount the bank and make a rush for it. All made
similar rushes, one at a time, and all of us were fired at at short
range. We reached the small outpost of about a dozen men lying on
their stomachs and got roundly sworn at, the small hole they were in
could not hold us all and we had to show ourselves, which brought a
torrent of bullets a