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than Romani & Magdhaba combined & it proved what brilliant fighters these boy are. The fiercer the "scrap" the more devil our boys seem to put into their actions & charges, which I hope they shall keep up to the end of this titanic struggle.
The work of the stretcher bearers had been arduous & might mention that our ponies & ambulance waggons had to be taken to within a couple of hundred yards of the firing line. Consequently we were frequently fired on, & it is a wonder we did not suffer heavily in the way of casualities. One of our bearers were killed & another seriously wounded whilst conveying men from the field. We carried for our own Brigade, the first – each Brigade has an ambulance – and brought in over one hundred men, which kept us on the move, as our full complement was twenty bearers