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<p class="page" id="a5658044">[Page 44]</p><p>or the affair would have been ended before this. Our aeroplanes lately destroyed the enemys machines. Another peculiar part is that the enemy attacked after all the Australian Infantry had left Egypt, Our Batt, left about a week or ten days before, We volunteered to make a mounted regiment out of the patients but were declined so you see my luck <strike>has</strike> is dead out as far as action is concerned. We passed Aden this morning. We have had 4 days pretty hot weather coming through the Red Sea but it is decidedly cooler today. The boat is a beaut, the tucker good and theres only 350 of us, and shes a 11,000 tonnes So every thing is grand, We were all given a Red Cross bag which contained 2 pair of pyjamers, 10 Packets Cigaretts 14 tins tobacco, 1 Towel, 2 Handchiefs 2 face flannels, 1 singlet</p>