Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 05:41:22 Paivi Tenhunen

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  trenches. The shell struck the ground
  

  before bursting and the result was we
  

  were nearly buried in sand. It got in
  

  my mouth, ears, eyes, inside my clothes
  

  and every corner of my uniform. When
  

  I got back here to the hospital and was
  

  undressing myself I found my bed full
  

  of sand. One of the Sisters asked me

  where all the sand came from so I said
  

  "it was a souvenir of Gallipoli".
  

  The shrapnel is terrible it bursts

  in the air and sends down a shower of bullets
  

  which cover a big space of ground. The
  

  bullets are round and are about the size
  

  of those stoppers in lemonade bottles.
  

  The enemy have also used dum-dums,
  

  some sort of explosive bullets which make a
  

  very ugly wound. Well up to the
  

  present I think we have given them
  

  
  

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• December 5, 2016 11:51:22 Jake Warren

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  trenches. The shell struck the ground
  

  before bursting and the result was we
  

  were nearly buried in sand. It got in
  

  my mouth, ears, eyes, inside my clothes
  

  and every corner of my uniform. When
  

  I got back here to the hospital and was
  

  undressing myself I found my bed full
  

  of sand. One of the doctors asked me

  where all the sand came from so I said
  

  '' it was a souvenir of Gallipoli''.
  

  The shrapnel is terrible it bursts

  in the air and sends down a shower of bullets
  

  which cover a big space of ground. The
  

  bullets are round and are about the size
  

  of these stoppers in lemonade bottles.
  

  The enemy have also used dum dum
  

  some sort of explosive bullets which make a
  

  very ugly wound. Well up to the
  

  present I think we have given them
  

  
  

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