Friday 25th May 1917
We have more
news from the 1st/5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in Palestine. Yesterday
they found working parties - a total of 1,740 man hours across the battalion.
During the day work continued on improving their bivouacs - one ingenious
feature was to make a bath of sandbags, covered with waterproof sheets. In such
hot conditions one may readily perceive the pleasure of a cool bath after work
and one gallon of precious water was allotted to every three men who were enabled
by washing themselves first and their straining off the soapsuds in a straw
"trap" to wash their clothes also.
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