Callum's+diary+entries

Diary entries October 30 1914 As I lent over the rails wishing my family good bye I hear cheering, shouting. We’re going down the Dardanelles to Gallipoli to fight the Turks. April 25 1915 As I landed just off shore I hit the rocky sea bed. The water was freezing cold so very cold my 2 tonne back pack. Grenades bomb in the water bullets whoosh past us at the speed of light then a shower of bullets come raining down on us, men dropping either side of me more grenades bits of shrapnel blast every way we turned as I try climb the rocky cliff. May 15 1915 We have been in the trenches for 4 days now. Twice the Turks have tried to attack us twice we have only just driven them back with the loss of 60 men so far. May 17 1915 There are millions of bullet shells lying on the ground. There are still plenty of grenades being dropped by the Turks. Out side of the there are hundreds of men lying dead on the ground some men and some mates. My first swim in four days. Water and supply duty was dreading by the end of the hike. November 5 1915 I thought I was dead wile I lay in the grotty old trench I hadn’t slept in four days straight. Dazed my ears pierced with the sound of gunfire another day in the revolting trench