Item 01: Gordon Thomas Edwards letters, 21 January 1916-7 August 1919 - Page 30
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[Page 30]
Y.M.C.A.
With The
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
14th May 1916
Dear Mother
I have once more a chance of sending you a line to let you all know how I am progressing. This is about our 8th day in Egypt and I suppose I am now getting acclimatised to a certain extent. The camp conditions are not of the best as we have been moving about a good deal and the dust and sand worries a chap a bit, where we are the whole countryside is composed of sandy gravel and when the wind blows etc. mind your eyes.
I cant say that I like Egypt or rather all I've seen as yet, we are camped in sight of the Nile but owing to some reasons are not allowed to either drink or bathe in the water. The river looks more like a large canal than anything, it flows so slowly through the flat country and its banks are so low and even just at the back of where we are now camped is an old battlefield, the remains of the