Letter · 7 Jan 1916 · Ismalia, Egypt
Christmas in Alexandria
Extracts from this letter
"On arrival we had to walk about 2 miles to our temporary camp. It was deadly, but one good point we could walk about without ducking & side stepping from the bullets all the time. We slept in tents that night for the first time in 5 months..."
"Well we left .... that night for Alexandria & what a Xmas we had. Our food was awful, we had bully beef & biscuits for dinner, plus a very second class pudding (cooked in a hurry), not even a piece of bread, but everything went off very quietly."
