Item 04: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1916 - Page 57
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No 2480 Tpr. R. Wilson
17th Reinforcements 1st Reg A.L.H.
Interm. Base Depot
Egypt
At Sea
18th May 1916
My dear Father
It will be some time before I can post this but I am going to start this now as there are some things I want to say which I might forget later on.
Soon after we left Australia Bartrim got the mumps, which made 2 men from our table of 6 men but so far we others have escaped them. About my pay – it is not much I know but why not use it on home? It is all in the family and I would much rather the money was helping to carry on instead of lying idily in the bank.
I was asking a returned chap about the hospitals in Egypt; he says that although you cant draw your pay till you get out, you can send a cable home at any time which will be charged against you so you a person need not worry about if he gets sick.
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