Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 04:44:06 Paivi Tenhunen

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  the waters edge to a height of about 200
  

  feet, and the sides of which were covered with
  

  a thick scrub something like holly
  

  that afforded excellent cover. As soon
  

  as we were near the beach we jumped
  

  into the water which was up to our waists
  

  and charged with the bayonet. We
  

  gave them such a shock by the sudden
  

  onslaught that they turned and ran and
  

  in a short time we drove them ever the
  

  hill and captured the trenches and
  

  a couple of machine guns. Of course we
  

  suffered heavily but we had captured
  

  a good position. We can get our
  

  artillery ashore now also ammunition
  

  stores and the like.  Today Monday
  

        On Monday the Turks had retreated still
  

  further but the fighting was going on fiercely.
  

           The battleships in the bay did great
  

  
  

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• December 2, 2016 15:28:58 Jake Warren

  (4)
  

  the waters edge to a height of about 200
  

  feet, and the sides of which were covered with
  

  a thick scrap something like holly
  

  that afforded excellent cover. As soon
  

  as we were near the beach we jumped
  

  into the water which was up to our waists
  

  and charged with the bayonet. We
  

  gave them such a shock by the sudden
  

  onslaught that they learned and ran and
  

  in a short time we drove them ever the
  

  hill and captured the trenches and
  

  a couple of machine guns. Of course we
  

  suffered heavily but we had captured
  

  a good position. We can get our
  

  artillery ashore now also ammunition
  

  stores and the like.  Today Monday
  

        On Monday the Turks had retreated still
  

  further but the fighting was going on fiercly.
  

           The battleships in the bay did great
  

  
  

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