Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 54
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sore feet & he walked with the rest of us till the end of the march, but he was not carrying any rifle or Equipment although at times he gave someone a spell on theirs.
At 1 am we were still plodding along & by this time we had covered 16 kilometres or 10 miles, and it was about this time the Colonel discovered he was lost & then things went anyhow. Somebody fired 2 shots that were said to be fired at the colonel but nobody took any notice of them & nobody knows who by whom they were fired.
After going another 2 kilos myself & Tim Quinn decided to drop out as we were just on our last gasp and the battalion by now was only about ΒΌ strength, the rest being all along the road for miles back. It was still raining so we crawled under the shelter of a haystack & wet as we were, with our packs for a pillow we were soon sound asleep.
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