Item 08: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 January-28 April 1917 - Page 85

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[Page 85]

25-3-17
Williamson B Sqdn rolled his blankets & started down the road towards Cairo, arriving at the Flying Corps hangars (Bardawil) 4 miles West of us; he told them he was going to England to fix up his affairs there & wanted an aeroplane to fly over to England they offered him a Bristol but he said he wanted a Taube they humoured him & put a guard over him; till a guard from here who had been sent to catch him arrived they brought him back & put him in the Field Ambulance, he has been very strange for some time & is quite dotty; but mad enough not to go East towards the enemy

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