Sunday June 6-15 COURTENAYS POST

Continuance of fine hot weather.
Last night comparatively quiet. Yesterday
morning when day broke Taranaki men
noticed that a field gun had been
brought up in night by Turks & was
“dug in” on a position only 400 yds
from our trenches and had opened direct
fire on our earthworks. Our artillery
having been informed we had the
satisfaction of seeing, after about 5
rounds from our guns, the enemy
gun go up in smoke & dust. This
morning early I regret that within about
half an hour 5 men of my company page 84 were wounded (two mortally) in our
rest(?) bivouac below the trenches.
Apparently enemy snipers had got up
during night to some position overlooking
our valley. Hundreds of casualties
have occurred in this valley during
the past month from this cause.