Item 08: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 January-28 April 1917 - Page 86

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[Page 86]

26-3-17
Mon 26th
The attack on Gaza commenced this morning & all day we have been able to hear a continual rumble from the warboats shelling the enemy positions & a continual stream of aeroplanes going out loaded with bombs & coming back empty has been Kept up, all the mounted troops in the front line are at it besides the infantry, there are rumors of a good number of prisoners taken but get no official news through, tonight a message came to Bde Headqrs asking how many men we could raise as escort to prisoners, the reply was 17 officers & 250 men; Headquarters played a team from

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