WAR DIARY
WAR DIARY
  • Home
  • WAR DIARY
  • About
    • About Sgt. Graham
    • J A Graham In Later Life
    • About Graham's Diary
    • About this Blog
    • About the 5th Light Horse
    • About usage and licensing
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Home
  • WAR DIARY
  • About
    • About Sgt. Graham
    • J A Graham In Later Life
    • About Graham's Diary
    • About this Blog
    • About the 5th Light Horse
    • About usage and licensing
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

Tuesday 13 July 1915: furious bombardments

13/7/1915

0 Comments

 
Mortars bombard Gaba Tepe. 
Reinforcements arrive for our Regiment. 
Innoculated for Cholera. 
Duty 1800 to 0600. 
Furious bombardment by us on Achi Baba.  Saw Turks from Observation Tower leaving the position.   A battalion of infantry and six guns drawn by six horses each are retiring but unfortunately we can’t reach them with our guns. 
Was cornered by a sniper today and had to run the gauntlet about 50 yards.  It did not take me long to cover the distance but quite long enough for him or them to have 7 shots at me, all going close, too close, one of them cutting a button off my trousers.

J. A. Graham
Picture
Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. Members of an Australian trench mortar battery preparing to fire a Japanese trench mortar. The soldier in the centre is holding a cord which he is about to pull to fire the weapon. Source: www.gallipolitours.org/2014/02/australian-trench-mortar-battery.html
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Author

    Jack Graham, ANZAC soldier, kept a diary from 1914-1918.  Here it is, blogged 100 years later to the day....


    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner


    Archives

    February 1958
    October 1918
    September 1918
    July 1918
    June 1918
    December 1917
    November 1917
    October 1917
    July 1917
    April 1917
    March 1917
    February 1917
    December 1916
    November 1916
    October 1916
    August 1916
    July 1916
    June 1916
    May 1916
    April 1916
    March 1916
    January 1916
    December 1915
    November 1915
    October 1915
    September 1915
    August 1915
    July 1915
    June 1915
    May 1915
    April 1915
    February 1915
    January 1915
    December 1914
    November 1914
    October 1914
    August 1914
    August 1911

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly