Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 326
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sing about any old thing that happens along, and seem to get a tremendous lot of fun out of it.
All men who served through the Sinai campagne, and those in Palestine too, have a lot to thank the Egyptian labour corps for; they built the railway, laid the pipes for the water and did the carrying of all the necessaries of life for the troops through all the heat and sand storms, and other adversities of the fierce Egyptian summers. Dreary and monotonous as that desert campagne was for the white troops it would have been ten times harder if we had been forced to supply all the labour and fatigue parties for bringing up the lines of communications on our march across Sinai. It was thanks to the E.L.C. that we were spaired this work and so were able to endure the many months ofÂ