Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 83
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[Page 83]
[letterhead with British & Australian flags images]
Methodist Church of Australasia
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Military Camp, Liverpool.
"As cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country."
PROV. XXV., 25
3/12/15
Dear Nell
I am still waiting patiently for word from someone at home. Things have been much the same here every day, very little doing You remember me telling you of Mervan Blake, well he pulled up the other day & had a little chat. He gave me something of a surprise in regards to news as to our future movements.
He told me that all of the reinforcements here are going to be turned into a new training battalion and that we are going into barracks in Abbassia, about a couple of miles from here. He said we would not go to the Peninsular but would get all our fighting here against the Barganese & some other tribes which I did not quite get.
According to what I heard today we are likely to go into training for about fourteen weeks. I hope not as it will get very dreary. We started our shooting course the other day and one of the Sergts challenged me for drinks. I took him on & won , as