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WHAT THE FOURTHS' ARE DOING.

MOUNTEDS AT DARDANELLES AS INFANTRY. HORSES IJEJ.NO CARE!) FOB. IN EGYPT. Writing to a member of the *‘Gisborne Times” staff, Trooper Foster, formerly of Gisborne and now a member of the “Fourths.” says: We are at Sidi Tiislir. Alexandria, Egypt (tlio Otago A ton n teds) doing envalry remount work. A (Auckland), B (Wellington), 0 (Canterbury) squadrons ihoimteds are dismounted and in the Dardanelles as infantry. Wo nave all the liorses here from Alain Body onwards. Ono day > R very much like another here. Wo do grooming, exercising, feeding and watering all day, and guards at night, Each man has about eight horses to do. Egypt is not a white man's country; many are crook with flyseiltcry or colic, Sand gets ill everything ■we dri.uk and eat and is the cause of knocking some of us over. Blazing hot by day : teis cold at night. The othe- day we had a heat wave off the Sahara' when riding through the desert. It was dike the breath from a furnace and the hot sand stung our faces. It upset the horsea good deal and made them fidgety and restless, causing us a deal ot trouble: riding one and. Hading lour.

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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 3

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WHAT THE FOURTHS' ARE DOING. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 3

WHAT THE FOURTHS' ARE DOING. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 3

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