Episode 2 of a six part audio drama based on the memoir of Alexander (Sandy) Barclay, who fought in the infamous Gallipoli campaign of 1915.

By turns brutal, horrific and funny, the series tells of the real experiences of the men who volunteered as cavalrymen in the Ayrshire Yeomanry, only to have their horses taken away. They were retained in trench warfare  and sent to Gallipoli (now in modern day Turkiye), where they were out manned, out gunned and outflanked at every turn.

Sandy recounts his experiences in this compelling drama series:

"I was stuck in my firing position with legs akimbo and I also couldn't get to the bomb lying with its fuse fizzing about 4 feet away from me. Nobody else had seen it – the observers had their eyes glued to their periscopes and Fraser was also looking to the sky trying to focus on the bomb which should have been flying through the air.

The bomb had a sixty-two second fuse from the time it was lit, with the burn down we allowed before firing to make sure it blew up where it was aimed, I reckoned we had about ten seconds left...."