1 The undernoted is a copy of letter received from Machine Gun Office
Lieut J Robin of 31st Infantry Brigade 10th Division as written by
him from Servia. Servia 1st December 1915 Extract from letter B M G O 31st Inf. Brig. X Div.: 'I had the original periscopes
in daily use in the trenches in Gallipoli where it was all
in trench warfare and candidly speaking I have found no fault
in them, on the other hand I can only praise them. If we
had not had these attachments I am certain we should have
had many of our men suffering from head wounds from the many
snipers bullets flying around. The only thing I might men-
tion is I do not consider the dark glass in the bottom frame
is absolutely essential, as a matter of fact when we had to
open fire quickly on a given position I preferred the clear
glass as one can sight much quicker and further with the
clear glass and I do not think the attachment is given away
in the least. Our original attachments were greatly smashed
up and I had to patch them up with the clear glass and our
position was never observed. Many M/G Os of the other units
have seen the attachment and asked me if they could not get
them. In Egypt they are using some other sort of attachment but I
was speaking to an officer recently returned from there and
he said these were the best he had seen.' J Robin
B M G O 31st Inf. Brig.