Item 05: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 March-15 August 1916 - Page 31

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14-4-16
Fri 14th
The wind has dropped & the weather is glorious today Two up is played all day here by some of the lads; A Troop celebrated the birthday of a couple of their men tonight & the majority of them drank more beer than they could very well carry & were rather noisy as they had an impromptu concert

15-4-16
Sat 15th
Another fine day neither hot or cold; half a dozen Egyptians came on the scene today with a boring plant consisting of a pump, pipes & a heavy piece of iron with a hole through the centre to jump the pipes down & started to work about 4 oclock this afternoon & nearly had the 40 feet of piping down tonight
the bottom piece of piping has a

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