Part 01: Alan Fraser Fry letters, 8th August 1914- 28 January 1917 - Page 209
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several photos, and am enclosing some with this, though all of them are not developed yet. It was a sight I will never forget. To the east of the Canal, as far as the eye could see was the desert, with clusters of tents here and there denoting the various Battalions & Divisions. At our feet lay the Canal, wonderfully green, and little motor launches flitting about, both banks black with troups, and then on the other side of the Canal, just the plain dusty desert again for miles. Probably there never has been so many men or so much life concentrated at the one point on the Canal before, and probably there never shall be again – unless the Turks run amok or come over this way, and I don't think there is much fear of that. They would get a very warm