"That night, all hell broke loose and we knew that the Chinese were there. Bugles, whistle blasts, they became, they started to attack our forward companies. It was very interesting as a bystander, because that's when I felt as a bystander that particular night. We were on the ridgeline, we couldn't dig in, the ground was too hard. So the only protection we had was to get rocks and put rocks just in front of us. And we had a couple of probes ourselves that night, so we threw a few rocks at the enemy blowers, mixed with a few grenades, you know, which is conservation of ammunition. And a rock sounds like a grenade tumbling down the hill. But to see tracers fired on your left flank and right flank straight up in the air made us wonder what they were doing.

"Then we worked it out. They were using that as an axis of advance. So they'd line up in their hundreds, and move forward to our position. They'd look over their left shoulder and right shoulder, keeping their tracer lines, bullets being fired in the air, as a means of navigation. Then they'd hit us. Our companies managed to repulse them right throughout the night. They were attacked several times. And right throughout the night there were these damn bugles and whistle calls and tracers and mortars going off and artillery and so forth. Us and our reserves thought, well it won't be long before we're called for to retake a position, whatever. What a way to celebrate Anzac eve."

CORPORAL JOE VEZGOFF