Category: 1939/07
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July 31st 1939 – Razani
I find two more pieces of lead, on my chest and forearm, making three in all. I hear all the guns are going to open up at 7pm tonight, suddenly, on the Sidar Alghad, at a range of 4500′. It sounds rather grotesque. R.P. tomorrow, but I don’t expect I shall even smell a bullet.
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July 29th 1939 – Razani
R.P. as far as Crocus to cover a perimeter camp being built there for a scout post. D Coy advance guard and my platoon on the right. A couple of shots hear the tower, but the range was too far and we did nothing about it. Then I am sent up to piquet a hill […]
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July 26th 1939 – Razani
The rifles have apparently been given up as lost, and as we are duty battalion, I spend the morning clearing scrub from round the 2/8 lines, from which they snipe the camp at night. Did so yesterday to a chorus of all types of firing from the R.P. troops. Dunkerton says it was the hottest […]
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July 22nd 1939 – Razani
I spend all morning looking for bloody rifles. I dig up the nullah bed, but no go. Mac has taken over the Company, so I must watch my step, I believe. I give the khassadars this morning a few “daltah rashas” and “sahib sara larshaks” which seem to sink home, but they will answer in […]
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July 21st 1939 – Razani
A really glorious storm on just now. 2pm, the usual time for rain, but this time it has got a real good wind at its back. This produces pukka driven spray such as I haven’t seen since I left Tiree. You can see it hurtling along in sort of belts and the noise on my […]
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July 18th 1939 – Razani
A nice bit of shooting yesterday. 7022, Oak, 7021 opposite, and Nik on Das has a bit of shooting too. He does not hold the forward edge. I sit up on left Narai Serai. Suddenly a couple of shots ring out, from a ridge about 300′ away. One NCO says he sees a man raise […]
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July 16th 1939 – Razani
A snorter of a Brigade day on 14th. We went up Zargal Algad to False Narai, Green Dome, and onto Bare Patch. Out from 6am until 6pm. Quite a bit of shooting on the top of that ridge. I had to occupy a sangar position and whilst rushing towards it through the bushes, about 200′ […]
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July 13th 1939 – Razani
A beano in the Corporal’s Club on 8th, and Munday confides to me that he was a cracksman before he joined the army. My 21st on the 9th and I managed to get hold of a few beers in the Club before lunch. I do a bit of Pashti then a moon about and finally […]
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July 7th 1939 – Razani
R.P. the other day and today. I win my bet, but it is a very tricky place to hold, and the Khassadars seemed unusually unfriendly. Two shots are fired form somewhere unseen within 300′ of me, and go whistling over the heads of the rearguard down on the road. I can’t do anything about that […]
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July 4th 1939 – Razani
Had lunch in the medical mess on Sunday, at Dunkerton’s invitation. A few beers first in the club, and then we adjourn, Donald as well, at about 2:15. It is just like a breath of bonnie Scotland again and I find Valentine lives in Edinburgh. We then go on to billiards and more beer, and […]
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