Item 06: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1918-April 1919 - Page 371
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Church of England Australian Fund for Soldiers Overseas
Australian Soldiers Club, Cairo
1st Jan 1919.
My dear Mother
New Years day! So here goes for another letter home. I wrote a short note on Xmas day from Luxor, and now that I am back again at the Club in Cairo I'll write you an account of our trip, which was such a great success, and quite the most enjoyable sight seeing stunt I have ever been on.
We left Cairo at 8 o'clock on Christmas Eve and arrived at Luxor about 9 o'clock next morning.
The train was fairly crowded for a start; a lot of well dressed Egyptians seemed to be traveling home for Xmas, and they nearly all carried childrens toys with them, so I think they must have been Omdahs of Coptic villages, along the line - anyhow they nearly all got out before midnight so we had the carriage to ourselves for the rest of the journey.