Item 02: Frank Valentine Weir letter diary, 2 January-31 December 1916 - Page 88

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[Page 88]

[Monday' 27 March 1916]

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Sent a Requisition to Ordnance for 520 Helmets assorted sizes got answer back today are these GAS!!!!
Fancy any man in Ordnance thinking Gas Helmets were wanted in Egypt; these are the sort of delays & replies of Red tape unthinking officials.
Received letters from
Grace Galbraith 14/2/16 Walter Campbell 20/2/16 & Joh
Those I wrote to the base for yours will be coming along.
Very hot
All my photos of Native [indecipherable] destroyed by Native photographed,I felt inclined to pitch him into the Nile, only reply I could get was "it is the will of ALLAH"

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