Saturday 31-7-15. QUINN'S POST

Usual change of companies in
firing line. Fairly quiet morning.
Afternoon our artillery ‘pasted’ the
enemy lines particularly on extreme
right ^{“Tasmanian Post”} where a small night attack
was to follow. The latter was duly
carried out by troops there (Aust. Div.)
who were very successful, capturing
a trench about 150 yds long and a
machine gun. During the operation
we kept up bombing & firing here
to contain the Turks on our front.
We also exploded 2 mines close to
Turk trenches. This was followed
by very heavy fire from enemy who
probably expected an attack.

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On Friday afternoon a Turkish 6″
high explosive shell buried itself
right in our trenches fortunately
without exploding. The men dug
it out and it had penetrated about
six feet of hard clay bank. The
projectile weighs 60 or 70 lbs.

Aust. casualties at Tasmanian Post attack
alluded to above 10 killed & 74 wounded. Turks
left about 60 dead so wounded must be
considerable. HMS Mersey also did much
damage by firing on Turkish supports.