Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 14
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sight, as on each side were nothing but barren wastes of sand hills & here & there a solitary Palm tree reared its head like some great King. And it was in this land that our boys guarded the canal, for all along both sides of the canal were the camps, while further out beyond our sight from the boat, were the long lines of trenches in the hot baking Sun.
There is one thing I can say & I took particular notice that these boys looked just as much at home & just as cheerful as you see them in everyday life in Australia. Cries of "Where are you from", & "Who are you", were like the croaks of a pond full of frogs.
We stopped for a while at one place going through, as the Turkish Aeroplanes were bombing the canal further along, & a few of us took this opportunity of swimming