Giles papers, 9 May 1914-13 May 1919 / Arthur Clyde Giles - Page 124
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France
11.4.16
Dear Father
Well here goes to give you as good a description of thing as I can. Well we weren't sorry to get away from Egypt I can tell you The dust was a fair terror.The last place we were at there was any amount of dust &: very little water we used to get a quart of water a day that was for drinking washing etc. Needless to say we didn't wash too often. We had a nights travelling by train from our camp in Egypt to the boat &: came in open trucks &: it wasint too warm either I can tell you. Then we had six days on the boat. After that three days & nights in the train here. We came practically right across France I thoroughly enjoyed the trip I can tell you. It was pretty cold at night but the days were nice &: warm.We dident see much