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till evacuated to the base hospital.
Our casualities were far in excess of anticipations & we found that medical stores and comforts were quickly diminishing, but one of the officers put forward a novel idea, which was carried to effect. Word was sent per field telephone to send foods by aeroplane & another bearer & myself were told to saddle up & proceed to the landing ground about two miles from Zowaiid. In the course of ninety minutes we sighted the plane & he had covered sixty miles, so you can imagine no time was lost on the journey. We went to the plane when he landed & the pilot asked me to stand on the lower plane & remove the stores which were strapped to the observer's seat. I found this a difficult task, as he had not stopped the engine & the suction from the propeller made it hard for me to keep on my feet, however, the stores were removed & he was away
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