ital view of all our trenches on the
left flank, including one that has been a bone of contention for some
time, and was the cause of an attack by the Turks last night. This
trench was formerly Turkish, but half of it is now in our possession
and between us is a pile of sandbags. Over this barrier each takes it
into his head to throw a few bombs at his enemy. We are trying to
rectify our position by cutting a new sap. The whole of the Turkish
trenches from Achi Baba to the sea are visible from Y. Beach O.P. For
a long way in front of where we were the distance between the two of
us is not many yards, and in one part the trenches look as if they
were mixed up in an extraordinary way.

I spent the evening making a table for our new quarters, and retired
to bed about 9 in the midst of big gun, machine and rifle fire, all
very near.

_June 17th._--Aberdeen Gully. We opened our new station to-day and
relieved the 87th F.A. We had but a few patients. Agassiz visited us
in the afternoon with Fiddes and Dickie. The first and I walked over
to the O.P. at Y. Beach. On the way back along the sunk mule track we
had to pass a string of mule water carriers. Each Indian leads three
mules in Indian file. One brute took it into his head to rub the sharp
edge of his tank into my ribs, and with his feet well to the side he
stood up and jammed me as hard as he could against the wall of the
trench. Agassiz, as transport officer, had to dilate on the amount of
intelligence he has noticed in the Indian mules, while I could only
use strong language over the wickedness of this particular brute.

We had a number of visitors to-day from neighbouring units--M.O.'s and
others. Padres Creighton and Komlosy and Major Lindsay dined with us.

_June 18th._--The centenary of Waterloo. I hear the French are to make
an attack to-day. I hope they will be more successful than they were
this day one hundred years ago. This morning we have been annoyed by
the Turks' shrapnel, the whole of the gully being peppered, and also
by defective shells from our own battery above our heads. Several
since we came up here have burst almost as soon as they left the gun.

After breakfast I walked to Y. Beach, and for the first time
scrambled down to the foot. "The Dardanelles Driveller," whose one and
only copy was most amusing, said about this spot, "Why call it a
Beach, it is only a bloody cliff"? It was here the K.O.S.B.'s and
S.W.B.'s landed on April 25 and met