Item 03: Walter Bruce Rainsford diary, 1 January 1916-31 December 1916 - Page 150

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Monday 27" Nov 1916 10 p.m) :
Our old transport from Egypt to France, the British Hospital Ship "Braemar Castle" has gone down. She was on her way from Salonica to Malta and either struck a mine or was torpedoed on Sat, last – eight months after we were on her.
Thurs. 1st Dec. 1916 (11.10 a.m).
A taube that executed a raid over London on Tuesday, was brought down 7 kilometres from our camp on its way back to Germany and its crew of 2 naval men taken prisoner. It came down in a field a kilom. the other side of Louverain Moulin & three of us walked over yesterday on a biting cold afternoon with ice on all still water, to have a look at it ; but we were too late. The R.F.C. had removed the machine to their dépôt during the

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