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Tuesday 18/5/15 STONE BRIDGE Bivouac

Fine day – fairly quiet in firing line
Artillery active in afternoon. About 7 pm
enemy heavily shelled our lines for half
an hour. about a dozen men were “blown
out” within a about 200 yds of my
dug out. Several of ours were injured
& 4 killed too on the beach by the
explosion of one of the big shells the
Turks occasionally land there.

We, (the NZ Inf Bg'de) are now
Army Corps troops under direct
orders of G.H.Q. & are detached
from 29th Div. We are the only
Australasian troops now at this
point all others being at KABA
TEPE. Supplied beach fatigues
again this evening.