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Heliopolis
Egypt 1.8.15
Dear Dad Mum & All.
Your No. 5 dated 20.6.15 to hand last Thursday 29.7.15.
I intended writing a few days before this, but could not get a moment to myself.
I should be annoyed but not supprised if I am too late for this mail even now.
Yesterday was my birthday, thanks for your good wishes am glad you have all been well, I am splendid.
Yes, dad, as you say, t'would be truly grand if we could meet to talk over all that I have seen, and we shall, that is , as soon as this little work that we are engaged with is completed.
'Tis a lengthy subject, for I have been all eyes since leaving Australia.
You are right, t'would not be worth while sending either papers or socks, the camp is unindated with papers, and as for socks, well I fancy that we are surely the finest clothed and equiped troops in the world.
Yes t'would appear criminal that there should be industrial unrest at a time when every fibre of the