Item 01: G. T. Birkbeck diary, 30 September 1915 - 23 April 1919 - Page 25
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[Page 25]
May
2: Parcels from home (4) first I have received since leaving Sydney.
6: Duty leave to Cairo; met Roy Stratton & Lieut. Symonds in town.
10: After a good time, returned to Sohag by mail train.
14: Left with Bde. by special train at 9 p.m. with horses in trucks.
15: Reached Kantara (430 miles) 5 p.m. Good camp near Suez Canal, but very hot, 123 in the shade, so we had a few hours swimming in the canal.
18: Left Kantara 3 a.m. reaching Hill 70 at noon. This is our last line of defence & strongly fortified with wire entanglements.
26: Left at 4 a.m. & after a March of 25 miles across the sand, came to Mt. Gala ( Romani) at 4 p.m. Clean camps & palm groves for sheltering man & beast.
28: Rode to Mahomedayieh for a surf & swimming horses. About five miles either way.