Dvr Richard Pendlebury (Seville), 2^nd Field Artillery Brigade: On Anzac Cove. Letter written to his brother George from Gallipoli – ‘Our boys are giving the Turks a terrible caning. The Australian have got a great name here. They call the Australians the ‘White faced Gurkhas’. The rifle fire on both sides keeps going all night. The Turks use explosive bullets which make a terrible row when they hit anything. My dug-out is on the side of the hill facing the water and I have a lovely view of all the sights. The Geeben used to send over a few shells every day trying to hit some of the ships but never succeeded and has knocked off lately. They generally give us some fancy shooting of a day; they hit one barge out of 50 shots.

We don’t work in the daytime now; nearly everything is done at night. It puts me in mind of a rabbit warren. Everyone is working and moving about; a shell comes and there is a general scatter and not a soul is in sight except when a shell case falls near, then there is a rush for it. When it gets quiet again you see them coming out of holes in the ground, from behind stacks of rations in fact from everywhere. This is a worse job than being up in the trenches as there you are under cover but you can never tell when a shell is going to burst here and stray bullets are flying everywhere’.