"A Fox Abroad" A Guthrie

4196

18th Rem 5th Battalion

2nd Inf Pde

AIF Abroad

 

9/2/16

In Hospital

 

Dear Colina,

I have got another dose of measles as soon as we (landed? Hole in paper).  We are getting looked after very well & will soon be right again.  I didn't get a severe attack as I had them only 4 or 5 years ago.  We had a very fair trip across and came up to our camp at Heliopolis by tram from (Suez?).  We came in the dark worse luck & didn't see anything.  Mabel's husband came on board ship at Suez & had a yarn.  It was nice to see him and he told me a good bit.  It was a pity that the boat was a day late as he had leave the day before we arrived and had to overstay it till we came.  He is looking well.  We had a day free when we got here & had a look around.  We are near Heliopolis and had a look through there then we went down to Cairo.  You would see some queer sights there if you were here.  There are people of all tongues there.  We were pleased to find the YWCA where some English ladies serve refreshments.  We enjoyed them first coming off the boat.  They told us that it never rained here, only about 1 a year, but it has rained twice since I've been in hospital, pretty heavily.  (We are ? Hole in paper) close to the Pyramids & won't be long before we have a look at them.

I saw Rushworth on a (hat?) the other day but didn't know him.  We have met a lot of C/Maine (ed. Castlemaine, Vic) boys (who?) came over before, also Lt Col Field.  He says he will try and get us in his lot.  We will have to do a good lot of training over here before we will be considered properly fit.  We are getting used to the Egyptian money & know a few words of the language.  We have still got the (fox?) we brought over.  He attracts a lot of attention.

 

(Ed:  there is a large chunk of paper missing in the last bottom left hand corner, so I can't make out the last few lines, but the signature is clear)