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When first we went to Mena, there was hardly a building to be seen but before very long, the place was alive with canteens, shops restaurants, picture shows shooting galleries & all sorts of things.
One evening the reservoir burst, & flooded the artillery nearly out.
We used to have plenty of music, for every Battalion had its band, & they used to take their turn, at turning out for reveille, as soon as reveille had blown, a band from each Brigade would march up the road a certain distance & back again, playing all the while, & there were some very fine bands there.
When the 4th Brigade arrived here Len came out & saw me I was very pleased to see him, & later on
I got him transferred from the 13th Battalion to the 1st. he arrived the night before we left for the Dardanelles just got there in time.
On the 8th February the 7th & 8th Batt. were sent from Mena to the Suez Canal but they arrived a day to late, for the scrap was over when they got there. While in Cairo I had a look at a few of their mosques, they are very fine especially the Blue mosque & the one at the Citadel (Mohamed Ali) the Blue mosque claims to have the original Koran, & they reckon it is 900 years old. I had a look at it the cover is worked beautifully, as all Koran's are, they also have silver candlesticks as tall & taller than I am, & beautiful tables all all worked in ivory & gold