Wood diary with sketch map, April-October 1916 / Bertie Arthur Wood - Page 25

<p class="page" id="a5658025">[Page 25]</p><p>was the desert also as far as the eye could see, There is about 250 men go sick every day This camp (I don't think I mentioned it before) was condemned about 3 weeks ago. A party or battalion leave here nearly every day for different places, where they go we dont know until we either hear or get there. We dont know where we are until (as I said before) we know. Just fancy we are in the third line of trenches here, not a rifle in our brigade, rows going on reorganising and hell in general, Excuse me for using these terms but there not another word in the English Vocabulary that would emphasis it so well, I forgot to mention that we had a Taube fly over the A. 40 the morning we disembarked at Port Said. Below is a list of the time lost in coming from Sydney to Port Said, a very interesting feature of sea life I only regret I haven't go the complete list. The orders were issued at 6 am aboard so the time goes back from mid-night the day before.<br/>May 7 23 men<br/>May 6 21 men<br/>May 5 20 men<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 4 28 men<br/>April 30 16 men<br/>April 29 15 men<br/>April 28 15 men<br/>April 27 16 men<br/>April 26 17 men<br/>April 25 17 men<br/>April 22 18 men<br/>May 9 13 men<br/>May 10 19 men</p>