Item 04: M.C. Evans war diary, 4 November 1916-16 June 1917 - Page 122
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[Page 122]
there cannot be much doing out there, even though it is in the front line. Read a delightful book the other day of Ireland & hunting by Dorothy Congers called "The Arrival of Antony", made me quite homesick for the East Devon & Woodbury Castle. Sed vanitas vanitatum; omnia vanitas.
Kilo 139, March 18th
Had three very good days for the journey & arrive at El Arish tomorrow. Bernard has improved wonderfully in fact it must have been exercise he lacked.
Yesterday a Taube went over us & we knew nothing about it until we reached here today (fortunately or I should have had the palps).
The desert is very pretty now in one or two little odd corners, as all the sheltered slopes are a mass of dandelions white & yellow daisies & stunted poppies making a very pretty scene.