Monday June 21 MINE GULLY

Longest day of the year and it
seems to be the warmest. I being in
rest bivounac lay sweltering in the
shade of a blanket all day. Fairly
quiet in our lines in front but shelling
goes on at intervals. During afternoon
a heavy high explosive one landed page 93 on the bank just opposite me about a
hundred yards off across the steep
ravine with watercourse between.

Fortunately it buried itself before
exploding and then showered many
of us with earth dust & [gap — reason: illegible].

Several of our bivouacs were torn down
& two men ^{Lt. Kibblewhite & another} were struck by flying
lumps of clay but not seriously
hurt. Heavy bombardment by our
forces at Krithia & Achi Baba went
on all day but no official news to hand.