“Him and me are mates an’ we’re going over together.'

Chapter X The Climax at Anzac
The second attempt to seize control of the Dardanelles was to begin that afternoon, August 6th, starting with a feint at Helles where, at 3.50 p.m., after a short bombardment, part of the 29th Division attacked a section of the Turkish trenches. At Anzac, after Lone Pine and other parts of the old Turkish line had been bombarded in slow shoots at intervals for three days, the rate of fire was increased at 4.30 p.m.
The 1st Australian Infantry Brigade about to attack Lone Pine, was then filing into the trenches facing it and into the newly-opened tunnelled front line ahead of them, from parts of which the shallow lid of turf had just been secretly removed. The tangle of Turkish trenches where the Lone Pine had formerly stood was being slowly bombarded by eight guns and howitzers. Three small mines had been exploded in no-man’s-land close to the enemy front with the purpose of increasing the cover for the troops crossing. By 5 o’clock the 1st Brigade was in position, crowding below the openings in the underground line and on the firestep of the old, deep, open trenches fifty yards behind. “Can you find room for me beside Jim here?” said an Australian who had been searching along the bays. “Him and me are mates an’ we’re going over together.’
At 5.30, with the sun sinking behind them, pouring golden rays over the ridges and parapets, and gilding the white armbands and the calico square on each man’s back
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(a provision for recognition in the coming night) the troops scrambled out and ran for the Turkish line.
It took a few seconds for the Turks' rifle fire to begin and a few more for their machine-guns. By then the fore-most running figures were nearing the Turkish trenches. There, to the astonishment of onlookers, they bunched, and, as others came up, a crowd gradually lined out along the low mole-hill of enemy parapet like spectators along a street-kerb.