Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 129
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2. will rise & the anchor drag. Getting poetical am I not, I was told today in the mess, by a visitor, a civilian, that the canal was looked upon as being the second, most important & largest frontage on which we are now engaged. They seem to think that this wll be the deciding factor of the game. We will either check-mate, Bill, or he will stale-mate us right here.
A great number of "tommies are being sent over here, & aeroplanes are quite common, & numerous, Trouble is evidently brewing somewhere & we will be there. I have not seen Jack or any of the others now for about three weeks but they are all here Arthur said he heard the 12th of the 4th have arrived & he went looking for them as Albert Settle should be there. I met an old Lindfield-ite the other night in Cairo in the form of Bob Hunter. Do you remember him at all. He said he remembered Bill & both you & Jen. He has been over to the Dardoes & came back when we withdrew from there. He does not appear to be too anxious to go back to the firing line, they all seem