Item 04: George Washington Thomas Lambert reports, ca. 1917 - Page 15

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It was while working here that I heard of the operations then in progress at the front & I immediately asked H.Q. A.I.F. for permission to go up. This was given but I was asked to catalogue pack & deposit at the Kit Stores all my pictorial records before going up. This work used up three days & when I at length reached the front after a journey (a matter of 3 to 4 days journey) the operations before mentioned were over & I was only able to record the ground. But from the point of view of local & military interest the visit was most profitable as I was enabled to make sketches of the other side of the Jordan, the Jordan, the Jericho Plain, the Dead Sea & other sketches of interest.

The time limit was now drawing perilously near & I returned to Cairo, there to find that I had missed a wire asking advising me that passage had been arranged. After one night in Cairo I left for Alex & proceeded to London.