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Diary Entries October 1914 As I walked into wide-open doors I looked all around me and “WOW” this ship is huge. I waved to my mother hugged her goodbye and ran right onto the boat and said my last goodbye. I was thinking about my kids and how much I was going to miss them. I looked in my bag for a drink I found my mothers necklace around my drink bottle. So I put it around my fists and kissed it for luck. As we left the port I waved to my mother she blew a kissed to me and I kept it forever. 25 April 1915 Its pitch black at the landing of Gallipoli my stomach ached with fear of dying. As we hear the first gun shot the captain shouted “Overboard, Come on every on overboard”. I grabbed my gun and backpack looked up with fear, missing mum. I heard people bombing into the sea; I jump in the frozen water at 4:45am. I ran, sprinted listening to the thunderous roar of guns. “BANG” I let off a shot. I saw my best mate on the hillside calling my name “Come on, hurry, let’s get out of ANZAC Cove”. We struggled up a rocky hillside in silence. As we set up for camp and get ready for tomorrow. 2nd May 1915 As me and my best mate woke up we started to walk 3 ½ miles north. We looked around and all we saw was dead bodies lying on the ground all around us. It smelt horrible “A Turkish shoot shoot shoot” I shot a bullet it hit the man and we kept on walking. 30th May 1915 In the trench, as I wait in fear for the signal, I see people shaking and nervous faces. “The signal” as I prepared my gun I stood up and shot for my life. 3rd August 1915 Its 4:30am, I thought I was dead my body was stiff, like I was frozen soiled I missed my parents, my kids and especially my husband. 30th August 1915 As I slowly wander alone, no one to talk to looked up see someone in the distance get my gun ready, aimed up and hear her “Don’t shoot don’t shoot” I ran as hard as I could let my arms out and hugged her. As I start to cry she wipes out my tears and says “We will be home soon and we will survive”. 20th September 1915 Yesterday I missed my sons 10th birthday and I cried. As I take my mothers necklace I accidently, over heard the captain saying “We going to leave ANZAC Cove and get home before Christmas”. The captain saw me move and said to me “You lad have you heard what we have just said so you are going to lead the troops and I home”. “Yes sir, but how am I going to do that”. So I laid down on my bed and thought to myself and thought of a way to get us home safely. 11th October 1915 We are still walking back to ANZAC Cove and it’s my best mate’s birthday and she is turning 23 years old. I gave her a real life poppy for her birthday present. We stopped for a drink and happen to bump into another English captain so we decided to go home we them. 15th December 1915 Yesterday we finally made it to ANZAC Cove. All around the ships were dead bodies. The sea looked redder than the red sea it’s self. As I return home I think what my house is going to look like and who is coming to pick me up, even though it makes me want to cry. Now I am curling up under my blankets listening to the radio.