Part 02: Rex Nixon letters, 21 May 1915-27 December 1916 - Page 126
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not walk down by train to Moaska eighteen miles away. Before we had gone five miles from Marsuh all the ambulances were just about full, as we had a good many stretcher cases. At dinner time a lot of the knocked up ones tackled the track again; but only to make more room for others. There were men lying all over the place, some sun struck, some simply fagged out. All ambulancemen dropped their loads and went back for more. From dinner time on the battalions infact (in fact the brigade) cut right off the track, and went over sand hills, one after the other; it soon told on the men who would sink down to the top of their boots each step. The way the transport and camels went was far