LONG DESERT TREK
SIKHS' ESCAPE FROM
CAPTIVITY
RUGBY, September 10. Four Sikh soldiers walked into the British lines at El Alamein after ten weeks in captivity and a trek of 400 miles behind and through the enemy lines.
They were captured on July 1 near Ruweisat Ridge. They say they were harshly treated and were given few rations and little water before being set to work on an extension of the railway to Tobruk. From their prison cage they witnessed the tremendous havoc wrought by the R.A.F. on the harbour and shipping. They succeeded in escaping on the night of August 18. Their journey proved dreadful; they wan.dered across the desert without map or compass, hiding by day and walking by night. They reached the''interior, but had to return to the coast to get water. They found a cistern containing four gallons, enough for them, to renew the journey. Before reaching the British lines they had to pass through the battlefield.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 7
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161LONG DESERT TREK Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 7
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