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whom he went to school. Sergeant Donald Fraser came in this morning; he has a few sores on his hands. I got a Capricornian yesterday from Thomasson of Rockhampton who is in the 3rd Field Ambulance. I read it this morning. Unfortunately it had no Mount Morgan news. I haven't got any word from Russell yet since Port Said; but I have written to him several times. The food here is plentiful but the flies are bad. We get bread now for the last week every other day, baked by our own Field Bakery on Imbros. It is a Godsend to the people with broken dentures. We get fresh meat now occasionally. Besides the ordinary "bully beef" we get corned mutton, fresh beef (tinned) Maconochie's ration, onions, potatoes, compressed vegetables, etc. all in abundance. Sandbags are most useful things. The walls of our dugout shelter and Hospital consist of them. 2 inch planks for the roofs and if there were plenty of sand bags available, and plenty of timber strong enough to hold them we would have a sand bagged roof too. We are using a teaspoonful of formalin to a plateful of water for the flies, and we find it kills thousands of them. I went to the 3rd Field Ambulance Camp ¾ mile away yesterday, and saw Sutton, Dixon and others. Coming back I called at the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, and saw Major Croll. Croll said that whilst in Egypt his wife showed him a post card that had come from "the late Major Richards". So don't be surprised at hearing it now and again that I have been blown out. Keep on contradicting it my dear. I am most careful of myself when necessary, and if such a thing should happen you would get a telegram from the Defence Department Melbourne. I don't think we shall be here in this confined place much longer, and will be glad of a change