Levin Man's Letter From Egypt

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 October 1916, Page 2

Levin Man's Letter From Egypt

By the latest mail from Egypt, Mr

F. W. Pink received the 'following intersting tetter from Trooper R. D. -Uuuro, formerly of Levin Romani (Egypt), Sept. 10, 1916. ' 'Just a line or two to you to let you know I am still in the land of living, also in the land of heat, sand, flies, snakes, centipedes and black men. Well, old sport! How goes it? I am very sorry in not writing to you, before, but to tell you the truth I haven't been writing much, and what i 6 more, writing isn't my trade, as you can easily see by my scribble, and it generally gets worse as the letter goes on. How is dear old Levin doing? Wouldn't I just like to be there now? How would a goodi old football song go now round old Mat. Suhan's bar? There would be some ragtime steps done, eh? Do you know sometimes at night 'I lie down and think of good old New Zealand for hours ,and often wonder whether I am going to see it again. Do you know, iFred, 1 am getting ■tired of this life, and I think everybody else is, audi the sooner the war is over the better it will be for us all won't it? It is just two years now since I enlisted. Fancy me two years a soldier. Just picture old

Make, Fred, after five years as a soldier, but they eav the first five years is tlie worst part of soldiering. Poor old Tim Close must be tired of it now. Do you 'know there are only two from Levin left in the Anzac division in Egypt—Jack Young (from J. R. McDonald's) and myself are the only two in the mounteds left in Egypt. All the others are in France in the infantry—Billy Hannan, Sid. Smith, Tim Close, Ronald Cameron, Hector McDonald, andi all. I haven't heard from any of them excepting Tim Close. Poor old Tim! 1 often think of him and the good times we used to have

in good old Levin—times that we may never see again or perhaps be together to have a time again. But we may meet in France yet. They can't sure-

ly keep the mountede in Egypt on the desert all the time. We may go to Salonika, or perhaps to France. Well, I can't go on telling you war news, because the "ceneurer" has' to liavj a say yet. It always beats me that

they won't let us write too much of our doings yet they publish it .in the papers—a jollly piece of rot. Of course we are soldiers, and a first duty of «. soldier is to learn to obey. Well, I must certainly close, Frsd, with kind regards to 'Mrs Pink, Ivy, and all in Levin. So good-bye for the present."