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A Long March
During the few months after the Evacuation of Gallipoli the 4th. Brigade camped near the Suez Canal. Returning to their camp after a nights' bivouac in the desert, a the Captain called his subs of his company into conference, and stressed the importance danger & ease of getting lost in the monotonous sand hills & the importance of marching on some definite point. He used his field glasses. "That flag pole is on our line of march. Make straight for it", he ordered. The subs soon picked it out with their glasses.
Four hours later it cd. be picked out with the naked eye.
Five hours later it was quite plain, An hour later but, although they had marched 14 m. camp, that should have been reached in 10 miles, was not in sight.
An hour later from a ridge they discovered that the flagpole was the mast of a boat moving along the Canal and that they still had 14 miles to go.
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S.W. [possibly Smith's Weekly] [indecipherable]
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