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Spanish Flu, I report to the Field Ambce.
24th Nov. [Written in red ink, between lines] My eyes are bad with the dust & I cant shake the Turkish fever off so
I am to be evacuated to the 14th AGH Portsaid [Port Said] & I bid farewell to the old bob tailed nag pack up my kit & depart per motor ambulance to Div Rcvg Stn Damascus. Here they allot me a 6 by 2 space on the cement floor. The building is crowded with sick Tommies & Auzzies suffering from malaria Pneumonia Spanish Flu & dysentery. The staff is shorthanded as half of them are down with the same complaints. Turkish Red Crescent orderlies are commandeered & go about their work as if they had been attending to sick Britishers all their lives. I am to go on to Beyrout [Beirut?] 100 miles away but word comes that Beyrout Hospitals are overcrowded & I stay here for 5 days