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and eventually arrived at the beach where I took my place amongst numbers of other wounded. Here we were dressed more or less, and then sent out to A14 in boats on which some 300 or 400 of us are now stretched along the deck in long lines.
It is interesting to exchange experiences, for everybody has seen something that the others have not. The wounded brought in so far total about 3,500, but there are many others, that can't be got down, and I am afraid a lot of them will die. We are to go to Alexandria, I believe.
Being wounded has its humorous side. One young chap got a bullet in the cheek, which made a considerable hole & stripped his top jaw of teeth. He was very anxious to have a smoke, but as he explained, the hole in his cheek caused a draught