Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from men who have been away up the Tigris, I don't believe I can complain at being spared the rotten food and constant fevers of East...