MEDICAL OFFICER JOSEPH Writing to his wife from Helles on 15th September 1915, Medical Officer Joseph Vassal, 6th Colonial Regiment, Brigade Coloniale, 1st Division, Corps Expéditionaire D'Orient, told of mine warfare, rain, faltering morale but some hope for home leave. “The Turkish mines under our lines are worked regularly and continually; but we have begun counter-mines, and shall doubtless be ready before them. The English blew up a mine last night and many Turks with it. “This morning we got up in the rain and mud. This clay soil sticks to everything. I had sand put down all round the dressing station. Now the sun shines out again. “I don’t know whether my enthusiasm has cooled, or whether our troops display fewer virtues in inaction. But many ugly things crop up such as one sees in peace time. “To-day an order came that lists of all officers and men who were on the peninsula before May 8 should be made out. It will be quickly done for my regiment. There are very few of us le...