Item 03: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 1917-February 1919 - Page 115

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Operations were performed. These would not be carried out unless absolutely necessary. A chap had a small piece of bone taken out of his leg. The M.O. put me to have massage of the leg of a morning. This necessitated a climb down stairs get there

Nearing Colombo wrote more letters so that I could post them to different people in England. Arriving at Colombo we were not allowed to go ashore immediately. The coolies were put to work loading coal to carry us on the rest of our way. Their method is slow and cumbrous – simply handing the bags from

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