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20: Orders to move off at 4 p.m. for Arish. We buried goods we had bought at Mazar, as we could not carry them on our ponies, being well loaded with personal gear & horse feed. Rode all night through very heavy sand.
21: Reached Wadi Arish at 4 a.m. & much to our surprise, rode into the town without a shot being fired, our planes reporting that they were at Magdhaba. Filthy mud villages, donkeys, people & fowls under the one roof. Turks had taken everything possible out of the place & women were brutally treated before they left the place. Had a swim during the afternoon in the Med. Sea, where Shepherd & Struthers of 1st regt. were killed through a mine exploding on the beach. Within 7 hours of reaching here, the boats were landing stores at an improvised pier which was erected by the Aust naval bridging team. 57 Bedouins brought in by our patrols.
22: Saddled up at 6 p.m., but kept in wadi till midnight waiting for ration convoy to arrive, not leaving until the 23rd at 1.15 a.m. doing 20 miles without a spell reaching Magdhaba at 4.30 a.m.