Item 08: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 January-28 April 1917 - Page 126

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20-4-17
Fri 20th
We pulled up at 5 oclock this morning & put our horse lines down had breakfast & everyone laid down anticipating a days rest, as we have all suffered badly for the want of sleep. I was awakened at 8 oclock & told to saddle up at once as we had to move out again; Unshaven bleary eyed & dusty we look a rough lot, we only came South a couple of miles this morning when 4 Taubes came over & gave us a fine exhibition of bomb dropping 6 men killed including a 2nd Regt Officer (Sinclair) & 30 men wounded; One bomb alone killed 14 horses & all the others accounted for some 14 bombs dropped in all on this Bde; A clearance station was put up by a mud hut close

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