Letters from Robert Edmund Antill to his Parents, 1914-1915 -Part 6

(I) 
H Company 
14 Batt 
March 1st 
1915 
  
Dear Mother & Father, 
It's a long 
while since I wrote last 
but still you must remmember 
the old saying better late 
than never, well I am 
now in Egypt as you 
know & things are pretty 
dusty here too but still 
they might be worse. Well 
you see I have got half 
way home & I hope I shall 
be able to do the other 
half before long & then

(2) 
I l shall be satisfied just 
think of mee walking down 
Park Rd & knocking at the 
door why the thorts nearly 
send me silly it hardly 
seems possible does it but 
still it is. I dont think we 
will be in Egypt long for 
it is getting too hot & the 
sand & dust is enough to 
choke a fellow, the 9 & 12 
Batt of the first Contingent 
left last week & I think we 
shalle be leaving in another 
month but I don't think it will 
be fore England but for the 
south of France or the 
Dardenales but that will be

(3) 
a bit nearer as long as I can 
get home for a week that 
will do me & then I can go 
off contented. Yesterday Sunday 
I went out to the Sphinx & 
Prymids & we climbed to the 
top of the bigest one 452 feet 
not a bad height is it. I had 
my photo taken out there 
on a camel & I will send 
one along with the next letter 
we also went in side the big 
one & saw the o tombs of 
the old kings & Queens their 
bodies u being in the 
Mussen in London. We are 
camped at a place called 
Heliapols 5 miles out of

(4) 
Cairo the Pyrmiads being 
10 miles the of other side 
It is very intersting 
round these places old Cairo 
& such places a these. Its 
not s to good marching 
through these deserts & 
sand hills the dust & 
sand give way under the 
feet & make it very hard 
I must now close as it is 
lights out hopping one & all 
are well home 
I remain 
Your loving son 
Bob 
  

The Cairo Young Men's Christian Association 
WITH THE 
British and Colonial Forces in Egypt.