Item 01: Leslie William Sutherland diary, 24 September 1914 - 23 September 1915 - Page 35

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10 February 1915
Wednesday 25 weeks of soldiering

Revielle at 5.
March off at 7.30. Motors were to proceed to hospital & remained there till all troops concentrated & at 11 pm the whole division moved off each brigade acting independly our brigade moved to [indecipherable] & our job commenced properly from today we were worked more than ever we had done for motor [indecipherable] were in order from noon till night at 9 pm we were out of action as we couldn't hold the road [indecipherable] has to retire here later [indecipherable] to take over all the work from then on. At four I returned to camp [indecipherable] & had the nighttime to be again disappointed the main body returned back via the dugout at 6 after tea entered up diary [indecipherable] & returned to [indecipherable] to pull down [indecipherable] tomorrow. Weather fine

11 February 1915 Thursday

Revielle at 6
I spent the morning fixing up my machine as the two days [indecipherable] on those rough road had done it no good. In the afternoon [indecipherable] & I went in for the repaired bike & as I had an hour to wait I went out to [indecipherable] & had a yarn to to the Corp of the 2nd Group the [indecipherable] as usual are doing no good with them at 2.30 I arrived at Cairo garage & got my bike filled up the tank & after riding a mile or two had to return as I was burning machine oil & consequently left a crowd of smoke in my trial. On the way out we struck the sultan & gave him a [indecipherable] of motor nuisance had the night off Bed at 10