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received a penny-pict today which looked very much like your writing. When you send anything along, why not write just a couple of lines, I search the papers every time in hopes. We are only a few days off Xmas day now, so we are bound to spend Xmas here. We are only getting a half-holiday that day and if thing go alright we are all going to Shepheards or the Grand Continental for a Xmas blow out. If we get off there surely will be something doing. I am going to buy a camera this week some time and I will send Dad the films and he will get them developed and give you what ever I send home. If you ask him he will get you an album for them and you can keep them for me. I am sending you a couple of photoes in this lot, perhaps you will not recognise one of the members with the fur on the upper lip. Just at present I can hear the pipes blowing, but the Egyptian soldiers cannot play them like the white folk. Still address my letters to same old address for although we are formed into a new battalion we are still known as the Boozy Fourth.The poor old fourth have an awful name
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