Box 6 Item 01: Edith S. Thistlethwaite letters and papers, 1914-1923 - Page 31
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Webb, Captain Wheatland & a few decent officers, the A.M.C. (Army Medical Corp.) men & about 250 soldiers. We left Suez at 12. noon & had quite a picnic on the train. Tell you more details later on.
Well, we passed through a lot of irrigated country & it was delightful, the green fields & palms & oh, the camels & people are just like the old Bible Pictures. It really seemed a shame to waste time eating instead of spending the time watching the different changes of coloring & the funny maide mud square looking houses without chimneys.
While walking to the Transport waggon – our motor to take us to our lodgings for the night, I heard someone say, How do you do Thistle? in a voice I knew & very glad I was to be welcomed thus. Mr. Cunningham – He is much thinner but is looking well – has been ill, so cannot go to the front, he has been sent on to Alexandria