Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 238
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As we got near Mafrah we could see signs again of our aeroplane's work on the retreating turks. A column of transport had evidently been caught going along the road here, and although many of them had got into railway cuttings and under bridges; it had not saved them from the MG's of our airmen.
Then we got into Mafrah. Our planes had caught a long train standing in the station there; and I wont try and describe to you what I saw. The accounts of you read in the paper of the condition in which sheep are in after a long delayed stock train arrives at its destination would give you some idea of what we saw - only not in sheep, and on top of all this the whole place as well was a wreck. However we had to rush round and get a list of the things that were there. There was a big train and two or three engines standing in the station, but