Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 156
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Anzac Dardanelles 26/7/15
My dear Jessie Jean
Yours of May 9 (in which you give the invaluable intelligence that you have just washed your hair) came duly to hand & was received welcomed & scanned with due honour & with a fitting sense of the kindness conferred upon me. I know that for days your hair wont keep tidy & the hairpins will all fall out but that is part of the price you must pay for beautys aids. I was sorry however to hear that you had not added your name to the 20 who gave £500 to the Belgian fund. But maybe you are going to give £1,000 later on. (Swish, swank).
I suppose by this you are flying all over the Rouchel Brook & startling the natives & witching the world with wonderous horsemanship. If so you can sympathise with me for having to leave 'Herald' & 'Jeane' in Egypt. But we are hoping that it wont be long before we get them & then Ho for Constantinople & the downfall of Turkey.
Talking about Turkies, would you please thank Lodiga for the scores & scores of letters and postcards that she has sent me. They lie in