Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 257
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night & made us dig in, amidst the mud & water. Well we dug in & expected to get it, about three o'clock, just about daylight. After we finished our shift, we came back to the billet & went to sleep, & never woke until seven o'clock. They did send a few over, but they all landed about two, or three hundred yards away & no harm was done. All our hard work, for nothing, although it may still serve its purpose. This morning a few more went over, & caught a building, but no harm was done, other than knocking the house about.
Your letter was in answer to my first two from Tel-el-Keber, so you must have received all the previous ones. I dont think I am putting the condition on that Mr. Wright suggested, as I am not the kind that go to seed that way. As you said, Jack is a knut, I bet it was not Mabel's correspondence he got behind in. He is back in the ranks now, but should get his stripes back, when we get into action. You say, you were sorry I had to revert to the ranks, but you will have got over it by this, as you will know of my good fortune. Doddie must have been pulling Cissie's leg, as the Light Horse went off first. They were up on the right, according to