Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 85
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[Page 85]
[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
did not remember anything you had said. I could have kicked him, I can tell you.
Arthur came back off the Cairo Picquet last night and he says he had the time of his life it was a real picnic. He seems to be growing taller and filling out. The weather is grand now, although it gets very chilly at night & early in the mornings. I am writing this in the Y.M.C.A. at the camp. It is a rather curious building as it is built absolutely of straw mats & at the present time it is packed, the chaps are squatted everywhere writing, even on the floor. I sent you a book of post cards the other day & will send you some more later on. Dick Gazzard had to go to hospital with the mumps a couple of days ago and they will keep him there for about five or six weeks. We have all to be examined now twice a week for them. Well Nell, shake the correspondence up as the proverb above is absolutely true. If I do not hear before Xmas I will come straight home.