Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 05:24:44 Paivi Tenhunen

  (5)
  

  work especially the Queen Elizabeth whose
  

  shells must have done awful damage
  

  among the Turks. At first the noise
  

  and screaming of the shells over our heads
  

  both from the warships and the enemy was
  

  terrible. On Tuesday it was quieter
  

  and some of us indulged in sniping.
  

  I shot four Turks during the day,
  

  and my mate got six. We had a
  

  pair of field glasses and were able to

  pick them out pretty well from amongst
  

  the bushes.  I didn't see much more of
  

  the fighting and was wounded very early
  

  on Wednesday morning and had to walk
  

  the dressing station to get attended to.
  

  at noon on Wednesday we embarked on
  

  SS Derfflinger  a German Mail Ship, captured by the British in 1914 in Port Said and renamed SS Huntsgreen mid 1915 a fine ship captured from
  

  the Germans and sailed on Thursday
  

  morning April 29th for Alexandria
  

  
  

  
  

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• November 19, 2017 05:22:51 Paivi Tenhunen

  (5)
  

  work especially the Queen Elizabeth whose
  

  shells must have done awful damage
  

  among the Turks. At first the noise
  

  and screaming of the shells over our heads
  

  both from the warships and the enemy was
  

  terrible. On Tuesday it was quieter
  

  and some of us indulged in sniping.
  

  I shot four Turks during the day,
  

  and my mate got six. We had a
  

  pair of field glasses and were able to

  pick them out pretty well from amongst
  

  the bushes.  I didn't see much more of
  

  the fighting and was wounded very early
  

  on Wednesday morning and had to walk
  

  the dressing station to get attended to.
  

  at noon on Wednesday we embarked on
  

  SS Derfflinger a fine ship captured from
  

  the Germans and sailed on Thursday
  

  morning April 29th for Alexandria
  

  
  

  
  

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• November 19, 2017 04:46:37 Paivi Tenhunen

  (5)
  

  work especially the Queen Elizabeth whose
  

  shells must have done awful damage
  

  among the Turks. At first the noise
  

  and screaming of the shells over our heads
  

  both from the warships and the enemy was
  

  terrible. On Tuesday it was quieter
  

  and some of us indulged in sniping.
  

  I shot four Turks during the day,
  

  and my mate got six. We had a
  

  pair of field glasses and were able to

  pick them out pretty well from amongst
  

  the bushes.  I didn't see much more of
  

  the fighting and was wounded very early
  

  on Wednesday morning and had to walk
  

  the dressing station to get attended to.
  

  at noon on Wednesday we embarked on
  

  SS Berfflinger a fine ship captured from
  

  the Germans and sailed on Thursday
  

  morning April 29th for Alexandria
  

  
  

  
  

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• December 2, 2016 15:38:02 Jake Warren

  (5)
  

  work especially the Queen Elizabeth whose
  

  shells must have done awful damage
  

  among the Turks. At first the noise
  

  and screaming of the shells over our heads
  

  both from the warships and the enemy was
  

  terrible. On Tuesday it was quieter
  

  and some of us indulged in sniping.
  

  I shot four Turks during the day,
  

  and my mate got six. We had a
  

  pair of field glasses and were able to

  pick them out pretty well from amongst
  

  the trenches.  I didn't see much more of
  

  the fighting and was wounded very early
  

  on Wednesday morning and had to walk
  

  the dressing station to get attended to.
  

  at noon on Wednesday we embarked on
  

  SS Berfflinger a fine ship captured from
  

  the Germans and sailed on Thursday
  

  morning April 29th for Alexandria
  

  
  

  
  

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