Item 02: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 21 March-3 September 1915 - Page 20

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3.4.15
Sat. 3rd. All the boys who slept on the lawn last night had a cold time of it, as a heavy dew fell, & they were not under trees. We took the horses to the Nile & had great fun swimming the horses over, on an endless rope. A couple got tangled & were nearly drowned, but they came to after some coaxing, one of our lads was kicked on the jaw while unhitching them & was put to sleep for half an hour, but came around all right, two lads were stripped to help any horses that got tangled, but as they capsized one of the boats going over, several others

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