Palestine
5/3/18
My Dear Mum,5/3/18
I'll have to hurry up if I want to get written all I want to before we start work
again. Plenty to do these days + very little time left for writing.
Labou the place I just spoke of is only a small Arab village at the junction of 2
main roads from Jaffare the(?) South but it was from there that the 2 thieves who where crucified with Christ came from. It is a little more than ½ way from Jaffa to Jerusalem on the main tourist road + from there you start to climb up into the hills.
My nord the road is steep for it is impossible to get a grade . In places it comes down in the fashion ⦚↯
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| (Title: "Mounted New Zealand World War 1 troops in Palestine, moving towards the Jordan River.") |
Kmjet el Guab is another valley. it is mostly a Jewish village + is rather a pretty place in the Jewish town lies on the side of a step Jace + there are quite a few fine buildings in it.
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ReplyDeletePalestine Saturday 30th March 1918 1:30am in Aaman...
ReplyDelete"By half-past one on the morning of the 30th the troops to carry out the operation had concentrated, dismounted, at the position of deployment in a wadi at the foot of Hill 3039. The horses were left at Brigade Headquarters, the proportion of horse-holders being one man to eight horses.
"The advance began at 2 a.m. over an open flat for a distance of eight hundred yards, when the course of a small wadi was followed previous to the ascent to the top of the hill.
"All machine guns having been placed under the direct orders of Captain Hinman, Nos. 1 and 5 sub-sections followed the attacking force, and Nos. 2, 3, and 6 took up positions in ruins two miles south-by-west of Amman
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