Item 08: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 January-28 April 1917 - Page 118

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17-4-17
barley field here we had breakfast & a Taube flew over us very low & the went back. Our Batteries & Warboats commenced a bombardment on Gaza at daylight & has kept it up all day; Armored cars & motor ambulances are common here. After breakfast we continued our journey till we came to to Wadi El Guzzi. Here we found plenty of good water & while watering our horses & all bunched together the Taube flew over again very low dropping 3 bombs killing 4 men & wounding 10 besides killing a few horse; We camped for the afternoon West of the Wadi & then took up a position for the night in a

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