Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 181
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2. could not see twenty yards ahead. Just now we have to economize in the using of our water, have to shave & wash in the same lot, about two desert spoonfuls, one wash a day. The swim is the only thing that saves us. Anyway it could be worse. When you send a parcel, for goodness sake put something solid in to eat, as I can always eat & have always got a cavity to fill. Stick to the old address Intermediate Base, Egypt, but cut out the re-inforcements, as I am now with the batt, A Coy. Am afraid I will have to grow the moustache again, perhaps even a beard, as I cannot afford to waste the "aqua pura", is the spelling correct?
Am going over to Fred Smith, he is just opposite, to get him to cut my hair with the clippers. As you know I came down here without any stripes, but was told off yesterday as a corp but I think it is only as a Lance-Jack. Anyway I intend to work for the others. I took a few