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- Cyril Wood
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- Army
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- A5705309
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- 12 September 2005
I have nothing special to report, nothing really just behind the lines, routine work.
Our job was to release vehicles to go to the 8th Army, and replace them with horses and wagons. We would go to a place and sort out how we could deal with the horses and take the vehicles away. The thing would be, if there was a vehicle being loaded, one waiting to be loaded and one the other end waiting to be offloaded a motor vehicle couldn’t do it any faster. So instead of having 4 or 5 big wagons we would have a dozen wagons of horses. Then we trained Cypriots for pack mules to go to Italy and places like that. All part of the routine, but the main job was to tale the motor vehicles away so they could go up to the front line and replace them with the horses.
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