Item 03: Joseph George Burgess war diary, 1 January 1916-4 February 1917 - Page 27
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[Page 27]
1 January, 1916
Maadi
I left the peninsular with the 1st Div Head Quarter's Baggage on 16 Dec (Thursday)
(two days before the final evacuation) 'Ence to Lemnos, Had a deal of trouble with the stuff, we had to handle it seven times all told. We landed at Lemnos on Friday 17 Dec & got into camp with stuff that evening. Coulstock & Tetley & I had a good look about for a few days, visiting the villages & eating nuts & chocolate. Some horses came however & they wanted us to groom them so we just paraded & Hastie told us that we had done good work & he did not wish us to take on a job that we did not care for so we could go to the 4th LH & go to Egypt with them & rejoin our unit there. We went to the 4th LH camp Thursday 23 Dec & Friday 24th we left Lemnos travelling on the