DESERT FIGHTING
WATER SHORTAGE
"There is just time for a few lines before Ave go in I'or ay ha I ay ill l'orm one of the dccisiAe actions of this campaign.'' says Captain D. S. Thomson, M.C., in a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs Percy Thomson, StrutJ'ord, Avritten from the Middle East on .Tlilv 1 I. "The AYurk here has been carried through under the most trying conditions," lie writes, "lighting day and night on three-quarters of a gallon of A\ater a day for all purposes. But now alter 18 weary days of harassing and holding the enemy avo have finally come .to the stage where we can see a bright lining to the cloud. The men, as usual, huA'e fought magnificently and lnu r c uncomplainingly accepted, as a necessary hardship the shortage of water and everlasting heat and sand. They luiA'e the comforLing knowledge that the Hun is in no feather Led or water nasvure."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 10, 30 September 1942, Page 3
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