Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 46
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is quoted at 2 piastres per pound. So we find the wisest course is just to accept the food gifts the cook lays before us and say nuffin. We have the best cook in Egypt & he does us well though to be sure he does want a few piastres now and then.
A piastre is 2 ½ 97 ½ = £1 English.
100 piastres = £1 Egyptian
But to us a piastre seems like a penny and they go quite as quickly.
Good Friday:-
I wonder what you home folk are doing today. Doubtless there is the Show or maybe there are picnics or other recreations. So I'm sending an Easter greeting in this screed. May you all have an enjoyable time and may the War Clouds not darken everything.
Yesterday we had a route march to Helwan, the whole Brigade. We cut across the desert on the way down, and came back via the road. The long snake-like column meandered across the sands, along the Wadis, skirted the Tura Hills, impinged on Wadi Wiggle Woggle - goodness knows how it got its name --