Item 04: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 December 1915-18 March 1916 - Page 39

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16-1-16
Sun 16th
This morning the horses were taken off the line 3 horses per man, & the rest of us put up breast lines to picket the horses to & a rough job is was digging holes 4 feet deep in loose sand to put the posts in, but we had the lines ready at dinner time;

This afternoon we were issued witht the same tents that we had at Heliopolis & put them up; The transports & all baggage came by train; We were given our black kits tonight a few of these went astray probably with the 2nd Regt mine amongst them but hope to get it tomorrow; Water pipes have been laid down to troughs close by the horse lines & are very handy these were only completed this afternoon; It looks as though we are in for a dull, quiet time here