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from - The Williamstown Chronicle, Saturday, December 11, 1915

Letters from the Front - Newport lad on Egyptian money effect of Sartorial Changes.

Writing from Zeitoun camp, Egypt, under date of 28th October last, Charlie W. Tucker (5th refs. 23rd Batt.) in a letter to his mother residing at 77 North rd, Newport, says...I saw ross bannister at Zeitoun station and had a good long talk with him. He gave me a bit of an idea how to count the Egyptian money. When you change a pound in our money for Egyptian, you think you are a multi-millionaire, you almost want a sack to carry it in. But when all is said and done, it doesn't go much further than a pound in Australia. I was talking to a fellow named Warlin from Williamstown. He was at the front and has been wounded. He told me that Bert McTaggart was in the Alexandria Hospital. I had just started this letter when Bertie Hyde put his head in the window of the hut and called out, 'Is Paddy tucker in here?' I looked andd said 'Yes! Here he is, 'but I'm blowed if I knew him and he did not know me. After we had been talking for a while he said that he missed my curls - that was the difference in me. As he had a 'mo' on, that tricked me. (Bert McTaggart and Bertie Hyde were Charlie's cousins).