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on duty daily & town picquets each night. Men for Aussie do all duties & fatigues for the whole of the Moasicar camp.
18: Sixty more left for Aussie today. Men are fed up & we are not allowed to rejoin our unit unless our C.O. claims us from here.
25: Aerodrome alight, three hangars destroyed, but our boys managed to get all planes out of the danger zone.
28: Rumour that we are to sail on "Port Sydney" on 4th ult.
March
5: Party of 650 left Moascar at 9 p.m. for Kantara east, where we boarded "Port Sydney" at noon. Aust. Flying corps on board, met Hassall who landed in Egypt on Dec. 16th last & already returning. Steamed out at 4 p.m. through Suez Canal. Glad to be returning at last, & shall be pleased when I see the old home & people again.
6: Anchored at Suez at 4 a.m. leaving again at 9 a.m. Very clean boat & excellent food; so far there is no cause for complaint, though the 20 officers on board have more deck space than the men. Trp. Frost of 2nd Guns attempted suicide at 4 p.m., shooting himself in two places in the chest with a revolver