Egypt

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1914, Page 5

Egypt

“OUR BOYS” IN CAMP.

United Press Association.

London, December 29

The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Cairo says the Australians and New Zealanders afe now in the desert camps. Whatever they are asked to do is done seriously because it may improve their efficiency and assist in the contribution of their best energies to the Empire’s work in Europe. Just as the Sydney’s men showed the King that the Australian navy could be trusted to do its part on the seas, the young Australian and New Zealand armies are thirsting to prove that the colonial soldier is a splendid addition to the Empire’s strength. Musketry they love, their battalion parade is splendid, and even fatigue duty is pleasure because it is necessary. The horsemen —and they are all fine horsemen—are hard at it, getting their animals in condition. Their horses are of a hardy type. No conditions are too hard for these men. Some of the New Zealanders were for some time without tents, and they slept on the sand. 'When rain came on the officers told them they had' better make shelters. The Auckland battalion searched out pieces of timber and oat bags, and within half an hour everyone was snugly houses in whares, which doubtless would be almost reluctantly exchanged for hell tents.