Saturday 3rd
February 1917 from our correspondent in
the field
We have heard
today from the 1st/5th Battalion in the Sinai Desert between Egypt and
Palestine. They are marching to the front line which is around the town of Rafa (extreme right on the map above) on the border between Sinai and Palestine, which was taken from its Turkish
garrison on 9th January.
On Thursday
they marched twelve miles from Kantara(1) towards Romani(2) where they
bivouacked. Kantara is on the Suez Canal about half-way between Port Said and
the Great Bitter Lake and on the esxtere left of the map above. Yesterday the Battalion marched along the Pelusium
railway siding and today they should arrive in Romani. They still have a long
way to go to get to the front as they will have the cross the whole of the
North Sinai Desert.
Sources: X550/6/8
(1) Now
el-Qantara
(2) Now Rommana
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