Item 04: M.C. Evans war diary, 4 November 1916-16 June 1917 - Page 66
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motor & heavy traffic & also if the general ground will suit infantry.
From my personal observation I should say that the report will be a favourable one. It has rained off & on every day & night during the past week & as we are spending the night out here in the open with no bivouac, I shall certainly be very cold & probably wet through. This place is a big palm grove rather scattered with a mud village in the middle & a big sized swamp – now a lake – alongside.
El Arish
Jan. 1st 1917
Arrived back from the stunt yesterday without mishap.
We have had a very promising New Years day, a tremendous sandstorm raging all day and even now (8 p.m.) the wind, though abated, is still violent. This morning three enemy 'planes over – for the first time for a week – dropped about 12 bombs on the pier here & railhead at Kilo 139.