Item 11: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 13 August-28 October 1918 - Page 91

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drifted off to the first dug out I could find to sleep for a time. Most of our section had gone, relieved by A Section. At about dinner time I was awakened by a banging about outside the dug-out, & then a face appeared to my sleepy gaze. It was a 1st Field Ambulance man, & he immediately apologised for having put his kit in my dug-out. I didn't correct him, but just got up & had a little dinner.

Then, as the cases were coming in in large numbers I went over to give a hand. Besides A Section, there were cooks, batmen, the postman & bugler hard at work helping, besides a few bearers left behind for the purpose.

There were four marquees, on the opposite side of the road from the Sugar Refinery, so that the station was on one side & the car stands on the other, the road being the [main] loading

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