Letter No 56
Dear Mum,
Today is about the best day I have known since I
arrived in the desert. To start the day off we managed to get enough water to
have a bath, the first for several weeks. Then this afternoon we received four
& a half tons, repeat tons, of parcels as well as a few dollars. I received
one parcel & a pudding from you & a cake from Aunty Emily. There’s
still no sign of your cake or the one from Aunty Lizzie but I suppose they will
turn up shortly. I received three letters, they were number ? (dated 2nd
Dec), number 15 from Betty & one from Mr Hansen.
As soon as the biscuits arrive
I will send you a cable containing No. 63. Parcels always take a lot longer to
reach us because they take up quite a lot of room & all the transport is
going flat-out bringing up rations & stores.
One thing I am now thankful for is the fact that we
are away from the dust storms. We are now in country where there is plenty of
vegetation & the aerodrome is like any green field at home. Another thing
that makes this place better is the weather. For the last couple of months we
have been getting around with all the clothes we could find but yesterday I was
stripped down to shorts & sandshoes for the first time in months. The
winter wasn’t nearly as bad as we were led to believe but it was quite cold
enough when we spent most of it in the open.
I don’t know how my overcoat & best blues are
getting on now because we only had our kit-bags for a day & then had to
send them back to the store at Cairo. I think they shuld be alright because I
managed to dry the out fairly well.
Keep me posted from time to time with what the lady
who reads the cards can tell you about me.
What she said about me
coming home is quite likely but as for the three stripes I think they’re out of
the question.
That’s all for now. Give my love to Dad & Betty
Lovingly
Yours
Frank
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