Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 175
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Y.M.C.A letterhead Stationed at Tel-el-Kebir.
Dear Nell,
This will be about the last letter you will get from this address, as we are going further down the canal. They seem to take a real delight in moving us about for no apparent reason. The first Brigade are all going so I suppose we will / all go to that same spot. What do you think, I have a camera at last. This is how it came about. One of the chaps, Pettigrew got leave to go to Cairo & I was told that I could have it also. Well one has to be able to put down thirteen piastres for his return fee to begin with. Pettigrew had none & I had twenty so I borrowed six & paid it in. A good beginning, but we had nix to continue with. We both started out to collect some old debts & Pett. gathered in fifty. I could not get any. Next morning we entrained for Cairo with the fifty to have a good time with. When we arrived I decided to go & turn up Col MacAnderson