At Suvla Bay; being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great w by John Hargrave
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The decks were crammed with that same khaki crowd of civilians who had cursed and sworn and drilled and growled for ten long months in the Old Country. You imagine what desperate adventurers they had suddenly become. Some had never been out of Ireland, others had been as far as Portsmouth, and taken a return voyage to the Isle of Wight. And each day we zigzagged across the blue seas towards some unknown Fate . . . death, perhaps . . . victory or failure--who could tell? Until one day a thin, yellowish-white streak appeared upon the sea- line; little groups of palms huddled together, and here and there a white dome or a needle-minaret. And so we warped into harbour, through the boom and past the Iightships, to join the crowd of transports and battle cruisers lying off this muddled city--the city of wonderful colour, Alexandria. CHAPTER VIII THE CITY OF WONDERFUL COLOUR: ALEXANDRIA Scarlet-orange; Beetle-green, Flashing like a magic screen. Silken garment, 'Broidered hood; |
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