Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 41
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When the word came through today for the first batch to go, there was wild cheering by that particular unit, and much jealousy on the part of the others. But we are still playing patience. Its getting much warmer here now & the sun has a penetrating power that it lacks in Australia. However we have not yet had it so warm as you had it in Jany & Febry. It is the heat & glare reflected from the white sand of the desert that makes it so trying here. So far however I have nothing to complain of .
By the bye, you will by this noticed that I have had several photos or snaps taken. In case you think I'm wasting my substance in riotous snap shotting, let me hasten to state that the Camp is overrun with camera fiends, amateur and professional. On the slightest provocation they take a shot at something. Some give us the photos, others bring a dozen along and expect us to buy. And as the charge in each case is very moderate, we part up.
On Sunday we got our first real taste of the dust of the desert. When I say taste, I mean taste for we swallowed bushels of it.. It blew up from the South - clouds of dust heat-laden from the Equator. Here & there it blew down the huts