Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 05:33:05 Paivi Tenhunen

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  the Turks.  We drove them up the

  hill from the beach at the point of the

  bayonet, and captured the trenches on

  top. We lost heavily but it might

  have been worse had we landed about

  one hundred yards further away, where

  the enemy had a trap laid for us. They

  had a mine field laid also big pits dug

  in the ground with spikes at the bottom

  and covered on top with brushwood. They

  also had wire entanglements charged

  with electricity. So you see the

  nice preparations they had made for

  our reception. Indeed it will

  be no harm to the world when they

  are finished off as they are very cruel

  fighters. There have been found
  

  several relics of their barbarity such
  

  as men disembowelled, tongues cut out,
  

  
  

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• December 5, 2016 11:31:11 Jake Warren

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  the Turks.  We drove them up the

  hill from the beach at the point of the

  bayonet, and captured the trenches on

  top. We lost heavily but it might

  have been worse had we landed about

  one hundred yards further away, where

  the enemy had a trap laid for us. They

  had a mine field laid also big pips dug

  in the ground with spikes at the bottom

  and covered on top with brushwood. They

  also had wire entanglements charged

  with electricity. So you see the

  nice preparations they had made for

  our reception. Indeed it will

  be no harm to the world when they

  are finished offer they are very cruel

  fighters. There have been found
  

  several relics of their barbarity such
  

  as men disembowelled, tongues cut out,
  

  
  

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