Item 05: General William Holmes reports of operations and instructions for officers, 1914-1915 - Page 154
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supports. As the men were fully armed & equipped with ammunition like infantry soldiers, besides the two guns & equipment & 5000 rounds in ammunition boxes making an average load of machine gun material of 50 lbs per man, they were unable to keep pace with the remainder of the supports & were left behind. At 2½ miles from the wharf the Section overtook the main body which was halted. Two German officers came up with a white flag to parley. After half an hour we moved forward accompanied by a German officer and carrying a white flag. We soon came to a trench out of which prisoners had just been taken both natives & Germans. It was the trench we had seen when turning a bend of the road 450 yards in rear of it. It was a straight trench without traverse cut across the road & six feet into the bush at either side. It was 2½ ft wide & 3 ft. deep. The parapet was composed half its length of loose soil