Item 03: Frank Hurley war diary, 24 January-13 August 1918 - Page 80
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[Page 80]
25th Feby
that the mission of death and destruction on which we were bent, God knows was hellish enough; and it would be an unnatural being who could look down upon the majesty of nature below, smiling and peacefully not feel regretful. Across the narrows of the Sea we passed, and up over the great mountains and chasms that to the eastern shore. Clouds rolled and the chaos of mountains and valleys are chequered with sunshine and shadows.
Just in front of us lay the large village of Kerak, Built on the crest of a high hill, it seemed impregnable enough and its only vulnerable point from above. At the Southern End on the precipice edge, lay the Citadel which we noticed to be swarming Turkish troops. This was one of the objectives of our raid. (El Kerak was the