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^ we find that it is Tulkeram [Tulkarm?]. Just at dusk As darkness falls we pull up, amidst a lot of transport wagons. Thanks be to God our limber is amongst them with feed for the horses & rations for ourselves. "Off saddle" How welcome that order was is. "Reveille at 3.30 am." Thank God for a few hours rest. I hitch the mare to an iron girder & feed her. The cooks have some hot tea ready. But I am too knocked up to eat much,^ so after a drink of hot tea I spread out the wet saturated with perspiration saddle blanket out & drawing my own over me I go into a trance.
21st. Dawn finds us jogging along a dusty road with a Railway line & hills on running along the side^ of it & hills on each side of us. About ½ a mile from Tulkeram we turn off the road & travel along side, of it. for grim death is on that road in the shape of a slaughtered Turkish transport. It is the work of British & Australian