Item 05: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 March-15 August 1916 - Page 45

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[Page 45]

29-4-16
Sat 29th
The Officers had a pidgeon match at Tukh-El-Kheil today
Capps [?] of A Sqd was found dead this morning, he died during the night in bed of natural causes, & was sent into Minia today on his way to Cairo;
My name was scratched off the list of men to go to the School of Instruction Lieut Garbett went in charge of the party

30-4-16
Sun 30th
Nothing of any consequence happened today; Reid & I went into the native village tonight on the invitation of Surgis Yusssef to have a feed with them Meat & vegetables were placed on one big dish in the centre of the table & it was a case of the fastest eater scoring best; it was not a bad feed & had plenty of beer, lemonade & water melon; 6 soldiers were there

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