Training continued before, late in the evening, the
Battalion received orders to be ready to move next day to relieve a portion of
the 17th French Division.
Trooper Claude Darwin,
serving with the Australian Light Horse in Egypt (see 26th February) who had re-joined his unit little
more than a work earlier following treatment for mumps, was again admitted to
hospital. On this occasion he was admitted to Abassia Hospital, Minia, having
been bitten by a horse. Next day he would be transferred to 1st
Australian General Hospital in Heliopolis He was the brother of Tunstill
recruit, Pte. Tom Darwin, who was
currently himself in hospital being treated for ‘debility’ whilst serving with
10DWR (see 14th February).
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