s firing that he got
upright to walk away when the Turk hit him through the back. When I
went up to him I said, "Hullo! O'Hara, I haven't seen you for ages".
"No," he answered, "and perhaps you'll never see me again." He was one
of our greatest heroes, and a most likeable fellow. (Long afterwards I
heard that he progressed well for three weeks when he suddenly grew
worse, and died on his way home.)

Twenty-four K.O.S.B.'s came in between 2 and 4 a.m. to-day. They had
blown up a Turkish sap, and on rushing forward to seize and hold it
they found themselves greatly outnumbered. Most of them were very
badly wounded, and four died in our station before morning.

_August 12th._--Feeling lazy I rode from Aberdeen Gully to W. Beach,
where I spend the next four days. This is only about the fourth time I
have been on horseback since I left Mex, the reason for my walking is
that I require exercise--and a lot of it--and besides you cannot dodge
a shell when mounted.

_August 13th._--We had a big mail to-day. The papers of July 21
announce that all lieutenants in the R.A.M.C., T.F., become captains
after six months' service. My captaincy will thus date from April 16
last. The Turks made an attack on the French and our centre last
night. We replied with a furious cannonade, then rifle fire continued
for the remainder of the night.

_August 14th._--W. Beach. Beautiful, still morning, as most mornings
are, but to-day is unusually calm. The sea without a ripple, and a
heat haze hangs over all. Our harbour at W. Beach is full of ships,
and just beyond it, at anchor, with their smoke rising lazily, are two
hospital ships, white to their mast heads except for their surrounding
belt of green broken by three large Red Crosses, all dazzling in the
sunlight. The harbour is a busy place, and is now a good and
commodious one, formed by a pier which it has taken months to build
from the rocks of Tekke Burnu. As the work proceeded slowly, the water
it was desired to enclose was further shut in by sinking two large
steamers, a costly method of pier building perhaps, but here I believe
it may be the cheapest, as Greek labour which built the stonework is
dear, and the Greeks poor workmen. They are so nervous that when a
shell comes their way from "Asiatic Annie" they bolt like a lot of
rabbits to their holes, where they cannot be unearthed for the next
half-hour. They were not engaged, they rightly say, to work under
shell fire, and this