The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-08-07

yOungster with wondering innocent
stare in his large eyes. He is clothed
4 IN very smart uniform that is trifle
90 large. One can almost sense his
ondeavor to fill it.
The most remarkable document in
the lot is that of Captain f. |. Lynch,
regiment unknown, There is some
doubt as to the second initial, which
may be intended for 80" or a.
His dairy is well kept gives the
most minute details, and mirrors a
mind constantly under great strain.
There are in it many illusions to him
self as lucky man" or man with a
charmed life
The captain left Rugby on Wednes-
day, March II, for Alexandria. The
French he met en- route he refers as
those funny little Frenchmen." His
stay in Egypt is given in the dairy in
bleak notes devoid of interest. On
Wednesday, April 81, his ship arrived
in Saros Bay. On the same day the
Turks fired on the British transport
"Manita" with the result that about
10 soldiers jumped overheard, of which
number about 60 were drowned accord
ing to the entries in Captain Lynch's
dairy.
OF the many entries a few will be
given here in the exact words Of
Captain Lynch:
Sunday April %. was the sole
survivor out Of a company CT IS rank
and file, the majority OF whom were
killed outright In the morning just
before we retired, ! bandaged a ser
geant Of the r. M. L. l., whose brains
were hanging out of the back of his
head. A sniper suddenly fired a
couple of shots, wounding again some
of the wounded | took little time
to locate the devil, and fired a shot,
bringing him down a hill 200 feet
above | took the belt from his rifle
and put it in my pocket for a keep
sake | was very much surprised to
! find him to be German gave him
fine death, about six or seven bay
Eonet thrusts just to finish him off.
didn't try to kill him." (Sic).
Between April 20 and May Is, Cap
tain Lynch confined himself to en-
tries of little interest. Nothing but
military routine is recorded.
MAY Is. Turkish guns reached
base killing IS horses and four men,
and wounding sixteen men On the
18th the Turks killed so horses and
twenty men,
In the same entry Captain Lynch
speaks of deserter who had been
caught and las he thinks, will be SEN
fenced to death. Four others, he says,
have already been sentenced to death,
but sentence had been commuted to
ten years penal servitude OF the
three were privates. belonging to the
Munster Fusileers and the Worcester
Regiment There is little sleep to be
had, and the Turks give no quarter,
says the entry, nor do they permit the
care of the wounded and killed, be-
cause the German officers are against
this. Captain Lynch writes of his own
trench as being filled with dead men
and accoutrement.
May 10. Turks showed great pluck.
We like the way the Turks come up
TO us in great bundles as the Germans
They fall like nine-pins. You can't
help hitting the brutes, they simply
walk into our bullets"
Saturday May %. Had a very
narrow escape. Was unbuttoning my
great coat, | bent my head to see what
had happened, when bullet hit me
a bang on the top knot. Had | not
bent my napper would have been
buried by now. My luck must have
been in. The bullet was like ton of
bricks falling on top of me. Fighting
at its worst at present The firing
is awful"
Tuesday May "a. The Manchester
Brigade has been split up and sent to
different units for discipline. some of
them giving us great laughs; of
they are. only Terriers"
Saturday, May 90. Turkish shells
are dropping terribly near Found
fragments of German, French. English
and Turkish made shells. They are