4th May 1915

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We built a new “dug out” for the 3

of us & a more comfortable home

could not be got. We have three

good meals a day & a comfortable

bed at night, Just at daylight a

bullet chipped off a box & landed

in a box 6 ins above my head.

Firing is kept up all day & night

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Australian soldiers and their dugouts built on the hillside overlooking the landing area at Gallipoli.

Reference: Australian War Memorial

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Diary of an ANZAC soldier. A WWI diary found in 2022. One man's story, told 108 years later.

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