LETTER FROM THE FRONT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1525, 21 March 1916, Page 2

LETTER FROM THE FRONT.

Writing from Zeitoun camp, Egypt, to his mother under date December 27, i 915) Corp. Herbert Langley says inter alia “I expect you know all about the evacuation trom Gallipoli and what a huge success it was. I was in the last party of 10 and one officer of our regiment to leave the trenches and everything went off beautifully. It was a pretty trying time for us few that were left till the last, but our luck was right in. Ido not know what we are going to do now, but there is evidently some big move on and we should know very soon. I have been in the best of health since I have been back this time. I never felt better in my life than Ido now. . . . The climate

is grand in Egypt just now —just like the N.Z. summer in the day time with nice cool nights.” Writing from the same camp under date January 14, 1916, Corp. Langley says: “He had received his letters and Christmas parcels. It was the first mail I have had for about nine weeks and you can depend I was glad to get it. The last spell I had in the line we had no mails sent on to us but there was a harvest on getting back.” Referring again to the leaving of Gallipoli the writer says: “I can tell you it was hard to come away and leave the place after all we have gone through and the heavy cost of life, but it is all lor the best as we can gain the same end easier from another quarter. I would not be out of the game now for anything, and it has made us all more determined than ever to go on with it to the bitter end. We have been up to our necks in it since coming back, reorganising the regiment and getting our horses into tune again and we are now ready to take the field. We expect to go out in a couple of days, mounted, so it will be a bit ot a change from the trenches. We have no idea where we are going to, but anywhere so long as we can get at it again and let them know we are not beaten ye!t I

have been recommended' for promotion by our 0.C., but it may be some time before there is an opening for me. Anyhow, it is something to be recommended even if it goes no further. Anything I may get I have honestly earned as I have no influence to shove me along, and one stripe earned on the field is worth more than a crown handed out in a horse camp !”