Item 05: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 March-15 August 1916 - Page 55
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[Page 55]
12-5-16
woke once during the night, the sun was well up when I awoke this morning; We arrived at Zag-A-Zig about 7.30 & watered & fed the horses in the trucks; Some Tommies had tea ready for us on the platform & we had breakfast. About 9 oclock we continued our journey & arrived at our destination (Kantara) about 11.30 & by 1 oclock we had our horses tethered to oak trees growing along a fresh water canal about a mile from the station;
had rather a good trip since leaving Hassan Pasha & very little messing about; Anti-Air-Craft guns have been mounted in various positions on tops of houses & heaps of sandbags; English soldiers are here in thousands & to the south east of us we can hear artillery apparently practising; these sound a long way off; From here a light railway runs out into the desert 27 miles &