Letter No 77
15th March ‘43
Dear Mum,
As yet there is no sign of the mail we have been
expecting but we are all still waiting patiently for it & our mail orderly
is trying to chase it up.
We thought that the cold weather was over as the
last week or so it has been rather warm but yesterday afternoon things took a
turn for the worse & it came up windy, cold & raining. At present it
does not look like clearing up for quite a while. The winter we were all
dreading was not nearly as bad as we expected it to be. In fact it was no worse
than any winter at home. The old hands were all telling us how cold it was
going to be but they were going on their first winter here & that was the
Middle East’s coldest for about thirty years & this winter was nothing like
the last.
The enclosed “newspaper” was issued to us
yesterday. Since the A.I.F. News printers have gone home we have been without
news of the events at home & I suppose this is to take its place. At
present there isn’t very much in it but it may get better later on.
As I said about a week ago we are now getting fresh
meat & our noble cooks have been giving us some very tasty meals. Yesterday
we had cold leg of lamb for dinner & a good drop of Irish stew for tea. It
is a decided change for the better from our usual bully beef & M & V
& I truly hope we can get more of it. We are also getting quite a few fresh
oranges from Palestine. The last few days we have been getting bread with our
rations instead of biscuits. The majority of bread over here is a dirty brown
colour & tastes very sour but this last lt is nice & white & tastes
good.
I was talking to one of the Scots ack-ack gunners
to-day & he told me that he had about 60 yard of different coloured silks
& he said if I wanted some of it he would give it to me so if I get a
chance this afternoon or to-morrow I will go over & see what he has got.
That’s all for now but I will write again soon.
Much love to Mum, Dad &
Betty.
Lovingly Yours
Frank
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