Volume 1: Letters written on active service, A-L, 1914-1919 - Page 98
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[Page 98]
[On letterhead of the Young Men's Christian Association "with H. M. Mediterranean Forces in Egypt"]
Heliopolis Egypt
6th 2nd Batt 1st A.I.F. C Coy
Dear Mum
I am in Heliopolis E 2 weeks and have had no letter yet I am 120 miles inland
Dear Mum
Just these words from a good man in a damed bad place. I am in a part of the world that is reeking with everything that is bad. Where I am the heat is always from 100° F to 125° F. I am leaving for the Front in 12 hours time to do our bit. Dear Mum you can bet your life that I will always be there when I am wanted Alec is in the Hospital here, through the same complaint. I have seen some wonderful things pyramids, sphinx I also saw the well that the Virgin Mary drank out of and the Tree that the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus shelterd behing when fleeing from Herod