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on our way to Mecca. This gully was obviously well known to the Turks who continually & unmercifully shelled it so long as their shells were available.Fatigue parties were soon at work & in wonderfully short time had an adequate & suitable number of roads, paths, & saps for safe transportation of troops and supplies. Drainage, sandbag barracades, water-pipes & tanks, field dressing stations, mortuaries, depot for food supply & ammunition, were speedily & temporarily placed in position giving it the appearance more of a great gold mining centre than a field of battle.
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