OUR BOYS AT WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 177, 31 March 1915, Page 3

OUR BOYS AT WAR.

PIT AND WELL IN EGYPT A munlier of letters and military postcards were received this week their relatives from members <r* the New Zealand Expedition!!!?- Force :u Egypt, hut they contained ’ittie ii“ •- matioir beyond- the fact that rite v'.ii - ers were “well and fit. ’' Sapper R. W. Barry, on of Mr. E. Barry, of Parnell, Auckland, v, ho attached to the Divisional Signal Service, wrote ns follows under date or February 7. the spot at which he was located not being mentioned: “We ar down at the trenches and in the tiring line, but when you get this no doubt we will have finished.. Everything passes through the censor’s hands, so that will account for this letter being written as it were •'with the breaks on.’ .It the present moment 1 am not at the trenches, but a mile or so away. However, from hero the boom of guns and rattle of rifles i - plainly heard. I go back to the trenches every four days. There be'.io; only six of us here,from one company i it gives everyone a turn in in- ' trenches. I am A 1 in health. . . .Although 1 can’t supply details, there is one thing that New Zealand ought to be proud of, and that is her bo/s. They’re playing the game ami playing it well. Keen as mustard, and in tiptop training, they are as good a body of infantry as anyone could wish for, and are sure to write their little coloured j page in the ‘Big Red History’ that is ; now being edited. We are being fee | very well—in fact, much better lane I we were in New Zealand. Our hoi.ii> are pretty bad at present-throe on and i three off( night and day, but I hear we i are being reinforced by a couple of | men, and that will make it easier. . . . Aeroplanes to us are now a common sight.”