hoping he would also have to
take to his heels, but the sniper left him alone.

I had next to visit the 88th Brigade H.Q. where I explained to General
Doran that the spot mentioned for our dressing station was much too
dangerous. He agreed at once, and said even where he was, on the side
of rising ground with its back to the enemy, was unsafe, and that one
of his sergeants had just been shot through the knee lying in his
dugout.

_June 4th._--To all appearances this is to be a great day. At 11 a.m.
to the minute about 150 field guns and howitzers opened on the Turkish
trenches, and now at 11.20 all is one great roar. Eight aeroplanes are
circling about, two big battleships with seven destroyers appeared out
of the haze, coming from Imbros. These are on the constant move, for
submarines will be about for certain, and we must not give them more
fixed targets, they have already had too many. Pandemonium will reign
in a few minutes. We have waited long for this, and all are overjoyed.

I have been round the C.C.S. and Ordnance Stores collecting all the
stretchers I can lay my hands on. Apparently we do not expect the
Turks to be the only sufferers to-day.

12.10.--Achi Baba and the whole Gallipoli point reek as they have not
reeked since April 25. The battleships keep moving and belching out
their deadly hail, encircled always by the destroyers, while an
aeroplane hovers, at a low height, over and around them, peering into
the depths of the Aegean in case a submarine should come sneaking up.
The French guns are very busy.

6.30 p.m.--Dressing St. Krithia Road. I came out here about two hours
ago, with six squads of stretcher-bearers. We cannot advance yet,
things are too hot, rifle fire being still a constant rattle,
especially on our left. When I arrived the French were very active on
our right, but judging from their comparative quietness now I think
they may have seized at least part of a great gully which had been
immediately in front of them all this time, and which has contained
one or more Turkish batteries. These have annoyed the French for
long--and us. The front of the hill is now fairly quiet, but we are
firing huge shells into Krithia and that end of Achi Baba. We know
from the wounded, who have been coming in for some hours in a steady
stream, that our line is greatly advanced, some of our battalions
having taken as many as five trenches.

About 8.15 I set off with thirteen stretcher squads to the dres