Item 01: William Peterson diary, 1 January 1916-13 August 1916 - Page 99
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their home and put in the rest of the night with a wet skin. The donkeys go alright until they come to that one plank and generally end up by being being rudely pushed ad lib into the water to get out or get under as it were Some of them safely negotiate that one plank but the percentage of dry skins at the opposite bank is about one in ten. No effort is ever made to remedy this defect and hell only knows how long the other two planks have been missing
We are moving our Camp away from here very soon now and I believe we are going further up the Nile somewhere about 4 days march. Message about transport are very frequent about it all day to day we will be relieved by other units.
The nights are lovely and cool and in striking contrast to the heat of the day
8th Feb. March Wednesday 1916
The weather has been windy today and so it has not been too hot. Both telephones going hard at it all day principally with reference to transport previous to our departure for ASSUIT somewhere further. up