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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1940, Page 2

The following extract from the letter of a New Zealand soldier in Egypt will bring a reminiscent smile to many R.S.A. men of the Great War: “A few days ago the authorities took our bed-boards away and left us to sleep on the ground. That was all right except for, the sand getting on the blankets, and bisects crawling all over you; so some of lis got busy, on making beds. We ‘found’ some timber, ‘appropriated’ some wire-netting, ‘took care of’ some wire, ‘stumbled across’ some nails, and ‘borrowed’ a hammer and saw, and as a result wc all have better beds, than we had before. A light finger is a very useful adjunct out here,”