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spirit, tinned edibles. The Tommy officers seemed to lack nothing. We found a theodolite, golf sticks & one officer even had his boot blocks, which helped to boil our billies. Our horses & ourselves had started in the morning without water & we thanked the Tommies for clearing out when we found their water supply, so we got our water bottles filled again. We went no further that night so improved the wells & managed to get our horses some water which was slightly brackish, but which they drank eagerly. They were terribly thirsty being on the march practically 2 whole days without water.
Wednesday 26th
Some more provisions horse feed etc were obtained from the other deserted camp of the Yeomanry about a mile away. Our troop went out early to Katieh the scene of the fighting & brought in 5 wounded men, but one man died on the way in. We also found a dead sergeant who had nearly got back to camp. He had