Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 123

• December 1, 2016 23:47:24 Sue Bryant

  Sat April 18 1915

   

  To day as I have said on the last page

  we started away at two o-clock if we

  expected anything to eat before we started

  we were disappointed as we had to stay

  without. It was far better marching

  during the night as it is not quite so

  very hot but it is very akward on a

  strange road in the dark when you

  can’t see where you are going. I cannot

  say anything about the first stage of the

  march as it was to dark to see anything

  but anyhow after we had done 7 miles

  we were met by a cart from

  R.A.T.A. & each man had a mug of

  limejuice & a bun & on this we had

  to march 14 miles.  About this time

  day was beginning to break & I reackon

  we were about 5 miles then from Mandalay

  & the first sight of it we saw was

  the Hospital for Leprosy. I think this

  is about the largest I have ever seen

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