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2nd April Good Friday
riot in cairo some shooting done by mounted terriers
4 or 5 chaps shot or wounded. batt packing up. everything upside down.
3 have orders to move at once. moved off 6 oclock marched to Cairo entrained to Alexandria, arrived about 5 on the 4th.
4 on board the SS Minnewaska taking on horses everything horribly [indecipherable]. A bit better, scored a fine dinner, & a corner in a horse pontoon , wherein to sleep
Have been having a good time but can't get plug tobacco
10 left Alexandria
11 making for the Dardanells
12 tobacco [indecipherable] very flush plug unatainable are lying to east Limnos Isle in Port Iadros (Mudros village)
13 Coy out in the boats unfortunately I missed this [indecipherable] out of position
rain last night got badly wet heavy wind also.
14 slept comfortably in the wheel house. went ashore with the Coy went through a village had dinner ashore
15 pontoons swung overboard. [indecipherable]
16 everybody going ashore caught for guard at the last moment.