Item 01: Hector Brewer diary, 21 August 1914-31 December 1915 - Page 46
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[Page 46]
February 1915
Sunday 7
Went to W. Laws funeral. Nearly all our Company turned up. The firing party fired three volleys over his grave.
Got Tom Wilson's pass & went in to Heliopolis Hospital & seen Art. Eyes still bad. Operation necessary to remove clot of blood from behind eye. Left him about 8 PM. Heliopolis tram service splendid. Had tea in Cairo which 6 piastres (about 4d in English). Took taxicab back to camp. Cost 10 piastres or 2/- English) Reached camped about 10 P.M. & handed my pass in our Quarter guard tent.
Monday 8
Our Section (No 9) & 10 on fatigue (Quartermasters) also cleaning up & [indecipherable] lines. Had to cart bread, wood & vegetables two days supply on account of bivouac tomorrow. The late Pte. W. Laws clothes sold in messroom & bought by friends for about £24 for the purpose of sending them home to his mother. He was a fine strapping young fellow & was greatly missed. He died suddenly & supposed from Pneumonia