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In a letter, dated March 15,. the late Private R. Watson states:—"We are still _at Zeitun, but oxpect to be leaving in a week or so for a place with a fairly cold climate. I don't tliink it is England. lam inclined to think it is somewhere about the Dardanelles way. Things seem to be hanging in the balnnco. We may get tlie call at any time, the sooner the better, I think, as this country is getting too hot for tis to stand. I don't know what the middle of summer is like here, and I have no desiro .to stay and sample it. I can stand a fair amount of cold, but tho beat gets me down. We have had some very solid days since we camo back from Ismailia. We have been having divisional training this last fortnight, and we have had two big days this week to put in. Wo do anything from eighteen to twenty-five miles on these days, part of the distanco being an attack. I can tell you 'doubling' over this sand in tho heat is not very nice. Wo shall not bo sorry when this divisional training is over; it will soon bo too hot to livo, even in tents. I suppose if they don't shift us they will have to put us in barracks."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2457, 10 May 1915, Page 2
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226HIS LAST LETTER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2457, 10 May 1915, Page 2
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