231435 Herbert James "Bert" Lloyd British Army Glamorgan Yeomanry from:Cardiff I have my grandfather's diary written during his time in the Holy Land. He saw Laurence of Arabia being presented with a white camel and speaks of how rare white camels were. Every block house they stayed at he lists the dimensions and talked of all the flies. As a child he told me many stories of this time. Learning to ride on Sherringham Beach being allocated a grey mare.
Out in Palistine they were aware of the, as he called them, "fuzzy wussys" stealing kits. The troops would only take off one boot to sleep and tied the other to it so they couldn't be stolen.
At what he called the Bahrain Oasis they joined in with a Trible wedding. I have the jewelry he was given that day. The saddest day seems to be when they got to Alexandria. The men were refusing to hand their horses over to Arab horse traders before the men set sail for France. They had seen the way the Arabs treated their animals and couldn't bear to give them over. He said that some men shot their own horses but never said what happened to the men because of this. He carried all his mementos in a black cat tobacco tin which I still keep them in.
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