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9: Stand to 4 a.m. rain has fallen incessantly since the 5th. Jerusalem fell today with 3000 prisoners & 60 guns.
10: Fine day at last; able to dry our clothes & maps. Here for a spell.
11. Third Bde. had 57 horses & 3 men killed by bombs at Ludd today. Taube brought down by our 'planes at Ramle.
14: Address by Gen. Chauvel who congratulated us on recent work.
15: Worked on conscription referendum.
17: Left Ayumkarra at 4 p.m. relieving the 52nd Div. in the trenches at Melebbus. Trenches & dugouts flooded, Scotties had one blanket for two men; no greatcoats or ground sheets & begging for fags. Our horses taken back to Ayumkarra camps. Four hour shifts on the gun, two on at a time, the enemy 2500 yds. distant entrenched. Rain fell at 10 p.m. continued all night.
18: Stand to 4 a.m., dugouts & trenches flooded, using duckboards in the line. Enemy keeps us under cover with continuous shelling.
19: Stand to 3 a.m. still raining & cannot get any sleep at night owing to wet [indecipherable] & dugouts flooded. Mail today.