IN CAMP IN EGYPT
Conditions Described As Better Than In N.Z.
Writing from a large ordnance depot in Egypt, a member of the Z.E.F. recently returned from Greece and Crete,'describes the life at this <-amp as being bettor than that experienced in New Zealand.
“Our living quarters were formerly married people’s flats,” he writes, “and they are much above anything we had in New Zealand. The meals, u-u are really good, surpassing those had back home. We have always been , led to believe that the Tommies we.- 1 poor, ly fed and poorly looked after «and that the New Zealand troops wore the best fed in the world ' How- . ?
think the boot is on the other foot. ;r it has absolutely amazed us on corning to this Tommy camp to <oe r >>< wav they are really treated.
“There is every facility tier,- foi sport and amusement, and we seem to have a great amount of time on our hands. We do three days’ guard du’.v and are then allowed three days off so it is really a gentleman’s life after what we have been through.”
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 80, 4 July 1941, Page 4
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185IN CAMP IN EGYPT Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 80, 4 July 1941, Page 4
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