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March 27 Saturday 1915Cleaning up camp all tents downKits packed & the ground cleaned & disinfectedCol Cox out of campCol Cox & Major Fuller into Cairo for dinner at nightWent into Cairo got things for Major.Special Guard collecting Passes at night, 84 men all told without permission to leave camp
The Hotel at Heliopolis is a palace once to be seen never to be forgotten. The staircase is built of solid Carrara marble, there are huge pillars of Pink marble which is beyond description. Electric lights cluster around the pillars set in heads of writhing snakes & brass cobras. There is also Frettted marble that looks like wonderful lace, in fact the Ball Room & dining room & the suite of rooms are finished beyond words. Cost 2,500,000 built by the King of the Belgians with English interests.
March 28 Sunday 1915Heavy wind blowing land & dust awful. Church Parade.Col. Cox & Major Fuller left for town by car 2 PM.Church tonight Captain Miller General Ian Hamilton in Cairo"March Pass"for troops at Abassa.
March 29 Monday 1915Mounted parade in morningPosted letters for Major Fuller also one to mother & M & [indecipherable] Australian mail closes tonight 8PMLecture by General Walker to officers to-night 8 PM
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