Part 01: Alan Fraser Fry letters, 8th August 1914- 28 January 1917 - Page 140
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[Page 140]
Zeitoun Camp
29.12.15
(Just recovering from the Xmas Festivities)
Dear Father,
Received your letter with copy of Dene's enclosed on Xmas Day and you couldn't have sent me a better present. Dene seems to have had a very interesting time, and was very lucky in meeting [indecipherable] & learning about Uncle Jim. While on this subject I shall tell you something that may interest you all as well as Grandma & Aunt Rose.
I was at the Intermediate Base in Cairo about a week ago, I met a lad named Norman Kemp. He was on one of B.P.'s boats up in New Guinea (Supercargo) and I have not seen him since my last voyage there, and it was a wonderful thing to run across him here. I did not even know he had enlisted. He was in the 19th Battln, and could not speak too highly of Uncle Jim. I did not let him to know that he was my Uncle till I was saying good bye, so he was not just blarneying". "Was just like a father