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April 1916
to their camp the day following our occupation of it to get some of the things they left behind but those Australians were a hungry and an eager lot & never left anything for them. We told them to go & get their wounded mates in. C Squadron went on to Oghratina the day we were at Katia & there they found 3 wounded, 2 Tommies & a Turk who had been there 4 days. They used to help one another. One was severely wounded & the flies were already in the wound. He had to be carried on a stretcher across the sand for about 10 miles it must have taken 8 hours to get him in.
The Turk was shot through the eye. He said he had been fighting in Gallipoli & that they had a lot of Germans with them who said they only had to get to the canal when they could go straight to Paris & on to London as the Germans had taken those places. Our men who went to Oghratina said there were 200 dead there, so it must have been some fight & like the Katia where hardly