Item 05: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 19 March-15 August 1916 - Page 157
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[Page 157]
high ground at Bir-Es-Sagia but we soon hunted them from there back to their trenches. One of our lads got a bullet through his trousers leg & just grazed the flesh, & one of the horses received a bullet through the ear, but no one was hurt;
Skirmishes were frequent during the day at long range but we received no casualties had some good signal practice today as we got through 22 message besides verbal ones, & one of them had 124 words in it. left Bir Ayish at sundown & stopped at Qatia for an hour or two & then came back to camp getting here at 11 oclock & ready for bed at midnight
26-7-16
Wed 26th
A couple of Avatiks over today also our Bristol biplane but they did not meet; Large infantry (mostly Scottish) camps are springing up all around us & they are busy sand