Item 08: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 January-28 April 1917 - Page 113

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13-4-17
jar full but when we said we wanted enough for two horse it was a case of "mafish"; One of the "bints" was busy crushing barley into flour with the aid of two stones, this was rather interesting & we put in some time watching the process & yarning to the old man, then gave them Backsheesh & came back to camp, had dinner, ran in the telephone wires & carried on with visual till a Bde of Tommies arrived at 2.30 to relieve us, the Regt moved off & I had to wait for some time till the Outposts came in, arriving back at Khan Yunus at 4.30 after a good trip & a very enjoyable 24 hours stunt; Our horses fared bad for water as they had none till we arrived back; In the

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