Item 04: M.C. Evans war diary, 4 November 1916-16 June 1917 - Page 110
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to keep the wet out with complete success.
Coming into this place we had to go down a steep bank & over the railway, & the bgde. going in column of route over this managed to pile about a foot of sand over one of the rails & thus derailed several trucks of the next train that came over.
Tonight there is brilliant lightning going & thunder in a semicircle all around us but it has not rained yet but it is almost a certainty that it will. So far as I can gather we get to our destination tomorrow – Bir el Abd – a distance of 23 miles, a long trek in this country, but we may make two days of it.
Feb. 12th
Tillul
We are making two days of it after all.
Sleeping tonight under a sand cart & my stock of expletives is entirely exhausted on account of my frequent fracas with