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Tripoli: (Zuan ben Adem)

To continue. When I last wrote about our travels, I believe we were eating, sleeping and bathing at Cap Bon. After several quite pleasant days, we set off on a four day march back to the Tripoli area. The journey was uneventful except that at the end of it I finished up in hospital. After a couple of weeks, I returned to my unit. I had had a form of dysentery. On the way back, I had to stay for a short time at a transit camp on the side of the Mediterranean, where the bathing was delightful. Weeks of scorching hot sum, camping on the burning sands, Kamseen winds which made it almost impossible to breathe, relived by occasional trips by lorry to the sea, followed. The local habitation was known as Zuani ben Adem. The regiment then moved some twenty or so miles away from the desert to a site right at the edge of the Med. Bathing was the order of the day. Nothing exceptional happened during this period and the time passed relatively pleasantly until a further move began to take shape.

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