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up. Fortunately I have no reason to use a light & cheerfully wake up the next man at 2 am & pass the cheering news ^re the sniper on to him.
29th Off again at 1 pm. The enemy are in force some where ahead as our armoured car patrol has been machine gunned & shelled. We jog along until dark & we halt at the sound of gun fire ahead. All night along we dismount & mount & forge ahead a little every half hour or so. It is a night of misery & we would feel better if we could keep going. The firing is intermittent all the night. ^30th At daybreak we get a go a move on & pass captured guns & dead Jacko's. Just near Sasa we come on to about 400 prisoners both Germans & Turks. They have held us up all night, but they retreated in a hurry at daybreak but were soon overtaken. The road was is strewn along here with discarded packs overcoats