Topic: BatzP - Surafend
Surafend, the massacre
Palestine, 10 December 1918
Hinton Account
The following account by 771 Sergeant Frederick William Hinton, 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, details events he witnessed during the day leading up to the events at Surafend.
I was Orderly Sergeant on the night of the 10th inst and at about 2030 received orders from Lieutenant Dixon (Richard Brownlow DIXON) to go round the lines and warn all the men that no one was to leave the lines which I did. To the best of my knowledge the majority of the men were in their own lines, and some were at the YMCA Tent to see the pictures.
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Citation: Surafend, the massacre, Palestine, 10 December 1918, Hinton Account