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minutes owing to sheer exhaustion. It was an awful sight. Rifles, packs, equipment of every description strewn all over the desert where the men had marched. Many men became delirious & we had our work cut out, trying to render what assistance we could; the one cry was for water; hundreds could not speak for the want of water. Out of the whole of the 14 Brigade including 53, 54, 55, & 56 Btns who we were marching with, only about 400 finished the march; up till a late hour
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