9th-10th May, 1915] PROBLEM OF MONASH VALLEY 107
In consequence Colonel Cannan despatched to him Lieutenant Harwood, with thirty men of the 16th, and ordered patrols to be sent by the centre party towards the left and vice versa. As no word of these came back, Major Margolin 41 was next sent with a further thirty under orders to enter Frank Armstrong’s trench and advance along it to the left, so as to link up. But on reaching Armstrong’s trench Margolin found it so crowded that there was no room for his men, who had to lie down outside. Stumbling upon Harwood’s party lying in the same manner in the old No-Man’s Land, he set it to assist in digging the central communication trench. Then, since his own men were being uselessly killed, he returned to Cannan, and was instructed to withdraw them. Searching the space between the trenches with a faithful assistant,
41 Lieut.-Col. E. L. Margolin, D.S.O. Merchant: of Collie, W. Aust., b. Bielgorod, Central Russia, 26 March. 1875.
108 THE STORY OF ANZAC [10th May, 1915
Signaller Silas, he succeeded in getting forty men of the 16th back to Quinn's.
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