The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-03

tired from long fighting, but that they had plenty of men, They said couple of shells had dropped about hun dred yards from the barn just before we came, so we knew the batteries | were trying to get our range and we did not stay any longer, but went away from there and on our road.
 About 800 yards farther on We came to ruins, and when we went inside we found 90 or 60 of our boys cooking and sleeping and not giving q thought | to the shells or shrapnel. The mules | outside were banging away at the hay. as though there never had been war | in the world. There was no shell made that could budge them away from | that hay unless it hit them.
 Then along came a cart making a | lot of racket. One of the fellows in it had half of his face shot away and was all bandaged up, but he was try ing to sing and laugh just the same as the rest were doing. They were Anzacs, and were pretty badly shot up.
 The'word "Anzac." as you probably know, is made from the initials of the Australian and New Zealand army corps. They had regular town, called Anzac, on the peninsula. At Suvla bay and around Gaba Tepe the Anzacs got further into the Turkish lines than any other unit in the allied armies. They were wonderful fighters.
 By this time the Turks were making an attack, and all you could see to | the front was one long line of smoke and spouting earth. Then our guns started and the noise was deafening It was worse than in the turrets aboard ship during an engagement My head rang for days after we left the Dardanelles.
 The Turks were getting better idea | of our range now and the shells were
 falling pretty close to us, but finally
 we tore in with the 14-inch navals
 and ripped up three of their batteries.
 In the Hull that followed we made good
 time and reached our front line posi-
 tions at Sedd-el-Bahr during the after
 noon.
 The next morning we made our first
 attack. I had had bad night of it.
 thinking about Murray, and when the time came there never was chap more glad to charge and get chance
 at the enemy with the bayonet than 1 was.
 | We attacked according to a program. | Time cards were issued to the officer ! Of each section, so that we would work exactly with the barrage. To be ahead | of, or behind the time card, would mean walking into our own barrage. 1 The time of attack is called zero that is, the minute when you leave the trench. Some of the Anzacs said it meant when your feet got the coldest, but I do not think they suffered very much with trouble in the feet-net when they were advancing, anyway.
 The time card might read something like this: First wave, zero, advance, rapid walk, barrage 9 in 10 seconds, take first trench, 0:20; second wave, same as the first, pass first trench, 0:23; take second trench, 0:35. The 1 third wave is ordered to take the third | trench, and so on, for as many lines as the enemy is entrenched. The other waves might be instructed to occupy | Hill ', F :0S, or dig in behind rock 12 40. Here, zero is understood, the first figures standing for minutes and the others for seconds. It might take several hours to carry out the pro- gram, but everything is laid out to an exact schedule.
 1 was in the sixth line of the third wave of attack and zero was 4 80 | a. m. Whistles were to be the signal for zero and we were to walk to the first line Turkish trench. As we came out our barrage fire would be burst ing 50 yards ahead of us and would lift 25 yards every 10 seconds. Our stunt was to take advantage of it l without walking into it.
 | No one man can see all of an attack, which may extend over miles of l ground. but during the three weeks l was in the trenches on the Gallipoli 1 peninsula we made four grand attacks | and many minor ones, so I know in a general way what they are like. Each wave is organized like the others. First come three lines of what you might call grenadiers, though they are not picked for size as the old kings grenadiers used to be. They are de- ployed in skirmish formation, which means that every man is three yards from the next. They were armed only with grenades, but, you can take it from me, that is enough! Behind them come two lines. also in skirmish for nation, and armed with machine guns and grenade rifles. The first men on the left carry machine guns, then come three rife grenadiers, and then anoth- CT machine gun and so on down the length of the line. After these come | two lines of riflemen with txed bay onets.
 | Then come the trench cleaners, or moppers-up. as we call them. They were some gang, believe me. Imagine