The Quartermaster's Office from The History of the Fifth Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA)
Monday 21st May 1917
Your
correspondent is able to enjoy regular telegraph time at the moment, meaning he
can keep in touch with the only front-line battalion of the Bedfordshire
Regiment not in France, 1st/5th Battalion which is in Palestine. It transpires
that yesterday the Battalion attended church parade at 7.30 a.m. along with
1st/11th Battalion, London Regiment, with Holy Communion for those who wished
it at 10.30.
The day seems
to have become something of an involuntary, though welcome, holiday. At the
moment the battalion is under the orders of the General Officer Commanding 53rd
(Welsh) Division. Divisional headquarters had ordered working parties but
decided to cancel these. This was because of a phenomenon called the Khamsene -
a hot, dusty wind which makes the weather too hot for work.
Source: X550/6/8
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