Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 05:35:46 Paivi Tenhunen

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  eyes gouged out and other mutilations.
  

  The fighting was very hard for the
  

  first couple of days. There are some
  

  soldiers here that met the Germans, and
  

  they reckon it was hotter than any
  

  fighting that took place in France.
  

  The Turks had us at a disadvantage
  

  at first, as we could not get our artillery
  

  ashore for some time. But when
  

  it did come it made up for the loss.
  

  Of course our warships did great work
  

  from the bay especially the Queen
  

  Elizabeth. We could always tell
  

  when she was firing from the awful
  

  report of her guns. Then you would
  

  hear the shells screaming overhead and
  

  the boys shouting "good old Lizzie".
  

  I had one close shave from the shrapnel
  

  when the Turks were trying to find our
  

  
  

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• December 5, 2016 11:41:49 Jake Warren

  (3)
  

  eyes gouged out and other mutilations.
  

  the fighting was very hard for the
  

  first couple of days. There are some
  

  soldiers here that met the Germans, and
  

  they reckon it was hotter than any
  

  fighting that took place in France.
  

  The Turks had us at a disadvantage
  

  at first, as we could not get our artillery
  

  ashore for sometime. But when
  

  it did come it made up for the loss.
  

  of course our warships did great work
  

  from the bay especially the Queen
  

  Elizabeth. We could always tell
  

  when she was firing from the awful
  

  support of her guns. Then you would
  

  hear the shells screaming overhead and
  

  the boys shouting '' good old Lizzie''.
  

  I had one close shave from the shrapnel
  

  when the Turks were trying to find our
  

  
  

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