Theodore Laugesen to Carl Laugesen
Palogon Block
Abasia
Egypt
The Young Men’s Christian Association
with
H. M. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt
Feb 17/2/ 1916
Dear Carl
I got your welcome letter dated Nov 12. You will be supprised to see I am here at Cairo. I have been shifted from one hospital after another and hope to be sent home for a rest sometime if I have luck. I have just about recovered from my illness now and am fat as a porker a stomach like a retired publican. I am glad to see you are still in the same job. It does not pay to be allways shifting around. Don’t become a wanderer like me, try to stick in the one place for a good while and save up, you will be able to travel in comfort when you want too. I have had a letter from Norman, when I was in Cairo and he seemed to be getting along allright now. His letters are still a bit haram scaroom. But he seems to have got a fair job. I am in Baraks here at present and right next to us is the Australian Camel corps. It is a great sight to see five hundred Camels trotting over the Desert forming fours just like horses. But they are savage brutes and I would not care to be joined to that Corps though they get ten shillings a day. The Camels can trot faster than a horse can gallop and keep up the pace for five days on a stretch, without water or food so you see they are just the thing for chasing the wild Arabs over the desert. I will be pleased when They send me back for a rest. All my hair has come off with the shaves but is growing again now. They had me strapped down in bed for a week. They say I was raving mad I cannot remember anything about it. It is a rotten thing this typhus and it has clamed a lot of New Zealander There is a whole cemetary of them back on Mudros Island. It is just beginning to get warm here again now and the sooner they ship us away the better. We cannot get better when the warm weather comes so they have to send all Typhus patients back to N.Z. Do you ever see any thing of Willie now. I have just got a letter from Julie saying you have spent a couple of weeks a Rotoruan. Now I must close. Hoping this finds you well and happy
I Remain your Loving
Brother
Theodore
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