Friday 7th April 1916: yesterday the 1st/5th Bedfords’
train arrived at Shalufa at the southern end of the Great Bitter Lake, fifteen
miles north of Suez, which forms part of the Suez Canal. The men were given tea
and their baggage transported across the canal. The battalion then went to
their camp, half a mile east of the canal. There they pitched tents and
manhandled the baggage from the canal to the camp. In the coming weeks they
will be patrolling into the Sinai desert to detect any Turkish thrust towards
the canal, such as those which took place last year.
Source: X550/6/8
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