Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 136
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This unexpected and wholly welcome visit to the hospital ship is really the only item of news this week. In any case it has dwarfed all other items into insignificance. We all feel very optimistic on shore and have no doubt that soon we will start out to finally smash the Turk. We do not know when that will be. We just keep the Turks at bay and wait events.
Col. Ryrie is very well. So are most of our brigade. In an earlier letter I mentioned that I thought Les. Holmes was in Egypt, but yesterday I ran across him in the trenches. Please drop a line to Liz and Stan and tell them that Les is very well and getting fat. If I stayed on this hospitable ship much longer I'm sure I'd get fat too.
The Infantry (those blokes who walk & fight on foot) no longer call us the Light Horse Brigade. They call us the Lost Horse Brigade (This is infantry humour) There is one joke here which is too good to keep. The Indian's say "When the shrapnel shells burst overhead, the English run to the dugouts. the Indians pray to Allah but the Australians just look round & exclaim 'where the hell did that come from?'