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Letter, 25 Aug 1915. From 2/Lt Howard Hicklenton to his parents in London on Union Club, Alexandria, Egypt headed note paper. Provides details of the guns on board the SS Southland, also reports that the battalion is camped ‘about 3 miles out of Alexandria’ and ‘we have thousands upon thousands of troops [here] about 30,000 horses...all the Yeomanry...has been sent up to Gallipoli dismounted’. With accompanying envelope franked by Egyptian 5 milliemes dark red postage stamp, date-stamped Alexandria 25 Aug 1915. From a collection of 54 letters and postcards with accompanying envelopes, 1915-1916. Associated with World War One, Gallipoli, Malta and Egypt.

World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918)