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We also had some terrible dust storms we were wearing the shorts at the time these storms struck us, & the flying pieces of gravel used to cut like pieces of glass, they are one of the miserable things that ever I had had to face Not so long before we left Mena Sir George Reid & Ian Hamilton reviewed us, it was a fine turn out the whole Division was there, & marched past General Sir Ian Hamilton Just before we left for the Dardanelles we received our 1st & 2nd reinforcements & we also sent a big bunch of undesirables & venereals back to Australia. About the middle of March rumours began to get around that we were going any day, & everyone was getting anxious to be in it.
The night before we left Mena there
was a big row in the Wazza, & our chaps & New Zealanders pulled & burnt half of it down, pianos chairs tables, women, & all went out the window, as soon as they hit the ground, on the fire they went, it would have been a good thing if they had burnt every bit of it to the ground there was a great commotion in Cairo that night (Good Friday) all the lights were cut off, & the military called out to quell it, there were a few men killed that night, it was a pity it happened in one way, for the 1st Div. up till then had a capital name, & we were leaving next day but that's what made the boy's have a cut at it I suppose, as so many of them had been mobbed & robbed, while they were drugged