Part 01: Alan Fraser Fry letters, 8th August 1914- 28 January 1917 - Page 143
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round in the wet, & got soaked, but we had to see a bit of the place before we came back to Cairo. Alexandria is not as big a place as Cairo, but much cleaner, and more Europeanised, and instead of Australian soldiers in the streets you see nearly all "Tommies" & a good number of Frenchmen.
Had to leave by the 12 noon train on Christmas Day, as I was due at a Dinner at Shoubra Hospital at 6.30 sounds alright, doesn't it? – and it was
alright, as you can see by the enclosed Menu. Lance Corporal Smith of our Company has a sister nursing out at the Hospital, and I have been out several times with him. When it was decided to have a Dinner on Xmas night, each nurse was allowed to invite a friend. Of course Sister Smith invited her brother, so I suppose you wonder how I got there? Well I met a number of nurses during my visits there, and one of them asked me so nicely if I would come on Xmas Day, that really I didn't have the heart to refuse.