m. I searched our own and the French front lines amidst showers of
bullets but could find no trace of the man I wanted. I had taken Col.
Yarr's orderly with me, an old regular. After clearing the battery,
where big shells from Asia were dropping on all sides of us, and at a
terrific rate, he picked himself up from the floor of the car and
swore roundly, and said Col. Yarr would never have taken him into such
a hot place.

_July 15th._--About 5.30 a.m. we had a Taube overhead, which dropped
two bombs on W. Beach, the acres of boxes at the Ordnance Stores being
aimed at. A man's arm was blown off and two or three mules killed. We
have moved our ammunition from Tekke Burnu, where it was too exposed,
and the Turks seem to think we have mixed it up with these stores as a
deception, hence these bombs to-day. The machine was at an enormous
height, and its approach was neither seen nor heard, and the French
monoplane gave it a start of at least five minutes before pursuing.
The Taube went in a westward direction, ours directly north, evidently
with the view of cutting it off from its usual landing place. Our
machine returned after forty minutes, but I have not heard if it was
successful.

I went to Aberdeen Gully this morning having returned from H.Q.
yesterday forenoon.

_July 16th._--Woke this morning about 6 after a delightfully peaceful
night. I lay in my bunk, surrounded by muslin to keep the flies out,
and felt wonderfully contented with my lot. Such peace could not last
long, soon the booming of guns was heard some way off, others nearer
followed, and one over our heads joined in the chorus, and by 10
o'clock rather a fierce Turkish cannonade commenced.

6 p.m.--I took the temperature of the air to-day for the first time
and found it 92.5--not the hottest day I have felt here, still
uncomfortably warm. Walked over to Y. Beach in the forenoon, and up
The Gully later, meeting the Hants and Worcesters marching down with
their full kits--all off to Lemnos or somewhere out of the reach of
shells. These are the very last of the 29th Division to leave except
the three ambulances.

_July 17th._--W. Beach. Returned from Aberdeen Gully to-day. Last
night the Asiatic guns were troublesome about W. Beach, also a Taube
which dropped bombs about the ammunition dump. By shell or bomb a fire
was started that cost us 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition.

I had an order in the forenoon to inoculate the H.Q. Staff against
ch