Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 105

• November 29, 2016 01:06:16 Sue Bryant

  being to cross the River & get to a certain

  point without being seen or captured by

  there Scouts or Outposts. We were first of all

  marched to the commencing point where

  one gang of about 20 men were told off to

  cut large logs of wood off the trees. After

  this each man had to take 2 of these logs &

  besides his rifle had to creep & crawl along

  the ground dragging these along with him.

  It was great sport we had to creep through

  Bogs & burnt grass untill we looked like

  a lot of Chimney Sweeps as we were coming

  along we came across two of the Defenders

  Scouts we of course had to lie as flat as

  possible & hide our faces which being white

  is easily seen in the darkness, anyhow they

  passed us without them us so that was one

  danger post.. after this we managed to

  reach the River & this is where our logs

  of wood came in handy each man had

  to place his log in possition & in a very

  short time we had made a complete bridge

  across the River comprising over 800 logs of

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