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c/o Australian Commonwealth Office Horseferry Road London 8/12/15
Dear Aunt Evie
Received your letter dated 29th August on 6th Decr. As you will probably know by now I am fairly right now, but having been marked unfit owing to my leg may leave for Australia in a month or two. We (all light horse machine guns) left Egypt shortly after the infantry before our regiments left – to assist the infantry. We could not land our horses or gun wagons as Turks were shelling our boats & the beach so left 5 of our men to go back with the horses & carried our guns & material, one of our section was wounded losing his arm & our gun had three shrapnel holes in it which we were able to get repaired. As the Turks made a big attack about 3 a.m we were bustled into the trenches & attached to the 2nd infantry Battallion. The Colonel told