Len Shepard – Letter 28

[censored]  9.3.16

Dear May

We have made another shift & are camped on the [censored] of the [censored].  It is barely out of sight of our last camp but I can say now that I have been on three of the 6 continents.  This is a lovely job & is just like a sea-side holiday after the heavy work we have been doing.  We do no drill & spend most of our time bathing [censored] & playing about on the sand.  The food is good – for breakfast we had porridge, fried bacon & bread cheese & jam.  Every day a native dealer comes to the other [censored] with 3 or 4 camels laden with goods & a couple of our men row across for him & we can buy almost anything we want.  He does a big trade in tinned fruit at 7 1/2 piasters a tin.  Altogether we are having a real picnic here & don’t care how long it lasts but I am afraid we will be relieved before long.  There is very little news except of a military nature & not much of that.

Love to All
Len

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