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Gurkha Troops came in to-day, which means that there must have been a fight down on the Canal.
There is nothing much of importance to report here, as Heliopolis is very quiet.
To-night as I sit on my bunk, I think of home & everybody, & wonder when I shall be back again.
The War does not seem to be near its end, & no one ever thinks of it out here. It is only when one thinks of Everybody they left at home, that you feel lonely & miserable. Such is a Soldiers life.
24.1.16
Rained very hard & nearly flooded us all out. A peculiar thing of the storms we get over here, is the rapidity in which they rise & then go away again.
We purchased a good Piano to-day for the boys (on the hire system) & have placed it in our Mess. They are all over there Singing now & appear as happy as can be. It is a marvel what music can do to brighten up things.
Still not much news of the war.