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Excerpt from The Diary of a Yeomanry M. O: Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy Throughout the late war, the author of this book kept a diary, often under considerable difficulties and on odd scraps of paper, owing to the order which forbade the taking of diaries into the front line: occasionally these had to be written in cipher or destroyed when there seemed a possibility of the writer being captured. Apology is made for the apparently trivial incidents of the daily routine during the quiet periods, which are retained in the text in order to make the narrative continuous. Owing to the first year's diary having been lost, this period, which contained little of interest, has been covered by a brief synopsis. The narrative does not pretend to be in any way a full or accurate account of current events, being merely the experiences of the writer and his deductions, the latter often proving erroneous when subsequent facts became known at a later date. If it should prove of some slight interest to those members of Mounted Units and Medical Officers who took part in the campaign, the time spent daily in compiling it will not have been in vain. A chapter has been added on the last phase of the war in Italy, where the writer had the good fortune to accompany the Twenty-second Infantry Brigade which captured the Island of Papadopoli (Piave). Acknowledgment is made to the official Dispatches, official intelligence, and to extracts and maps from The Times Weekly Edition). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.