With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli, a chaplain's experiences . of Achi Baba, and my onlywonder is that they did not shell us incessantly. For-tunately for us, the shells went mostly to the right,where the troops were closer. Sometimes eight wouldcome altogether. They mostly burst too high, or didnot burst at all, and it is wonderful how little damagethey do. I believe only two men were killed and oneor two wounded all the time, though hundreds of shellsmust have burst among them. Of course, these wereordinary shrapnel, and not Black Marias. Whenthey had stopped I wandered over to a li
With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli, a chaplain's experiences . of Achi Baba, and my onlywonder is that they did not shell us incessantly. For-tunately for us, the shells went mostly to the right,where the troops were closer. Sometimes eight wouldcome altogether. They mostly burst too high, or didnot burst at all, and it is wonderful how little damagethey do. I believe only two men were killed and oneor two wounded all the time, though hundreds of shellsmust have burst among them. Of course, these wereordinary shrapnel, and not Black Marias. Whenthey had stopped I wandered over to a little roundhill to our right, close to which they had been drop-ping, to find out the extent of the damage. I foundsome New Zealanders there, but they had mostly burstfurther back over the I distributed someNew Testaments among the , and found thatthey had just got orders to move, and were feelingvery annoyed, and weary of life. They went off at4 that afternoon to join the Indian Brigade onthe extreme left of our line, and I promised to go and 1 » ^. > ?: o -V x; ^ — m -3 1) ?—t rt -J > ?y ^ 5 Ci> Q o erf o O 0 c/: z -o I3 IN GALLIPOLI 93 see them as soon as possible. I got a number ofpapers of different kinds off them, and that day wespent very quietly, mostly sleeping and eating. Inthe evening I went over and had a pleasant chat with the Brigadier and Staff—very nice fellows. F is acting as Brigade-Major, and doing it very well. From a letter dated May 14 : — I am exceedingly flourishing, the weather isdelightful, there are lovely flowers, many birds, heapsof food, plenty to do, and it would be all very jollyif it were not for the war. I wrote a lot of hastyimpressions last time, just after having had my firstexperience of war. Well, since then they are con-stantly varying. I wonder how much they have letyou know in England. One thing is quite clear, andthat is this is a far bigger job than they had everimagined, and fraught with difficulties
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