Letters from Robert Edmund Antill to his Parents, 1916 - Part 4 of 13

Reg No 1228 
Lewis Machine Gun Section 
14 Batt 
4 Brigade 
Sereapeum   A I. F 
Egypt  May 26th 1916 
  
Dear Mother & Father, 
I am 
writing this letter in great haste 
as I have about 10 minutes to 
do it in as the mail closes 
at 12 noon & it is ten to now 
this I will be my last letter 
from Serapeum (which is in the 
other side of the canal) & right 
glad I am too, we will be leaving 
these trenches for France in 
2 days time. We are getting 
every thing ready altogether

things are very exciting. 
Recieved you very welcome & 
letter & bundle of papers 
yesterday. Am glad to here 
foals are getting on first 
class. 
I must now close as they 
are waiting in best of  
health 
Believe me I remain 
Your loving Son 
Bob

P.S. When addressing 
please leave out G comp. 
& dont forget to put in 
L.M.G.S. 
Bob

Reg No 1228 
Lewis Machine Gun Section 
14 Batt 
4 Brigade 
AIF 
France 
June 23^rd 1916 
  
Dear Mother & Father, 
I dare say you are 
waiting for a letter from me & I 
must admit I should of written before 
my last letter I wrote you was in  
Egypt I believe & I have now 
been in France over a fortnight. 
Well as to this change I must 
say up to the present we have 
had a fairly good time, when we 
first arrived it was rather 
wet, well to be more correct should 
say very wet but for the last

few days it has been beautiful. 
We have been moved from one place to 
another already & not too far from the 
place wear Uncle Walter was killed. 
I have been making enquires about 
him or rather his grave & I am sorry 
to say we can find no trace of it, & at 
no. one graves registration office they 
told me he must be buried in ground 
that the Germans now hold. 
I have recieved 3 letters & 3 bundles of 
papers in France already which have 
followed me on from Egypt, of the 
letters 2 came from Mother & one from 
Father the last one was dated June 7 
& it was a letter card. 
Things are pretty quite here at 
present excepting for a few large 
shells which hop around now & again 
& as I write this letter I can see 
them bursting in the distance. 
We see some splinded aircraft

work here & the night or evening before 
last a fight took place between our 
our planes & German shells & I can 
tell you was some what exciting. 
Am very pleased that Poley is better & 
that he has got his exemption alright 
& how is Will goin on will he goin, if  
he does tell him to bear in mind what 
I say on the A.S.C. or the A.O.C. 
I hope by the time you recieve this letter 
all your teeth trouble will be over 
once & for all. 
You know this place is very different 
from the Peninsula, why b just  
behind the fireing line here one 
can get a hot bath & a good feed 
which counts every thing in these times 
Well I have very little more to 
say so I will now close hoping one & 
all are well at home as I am myself 
I remain your loving son 
Bob.

P.S. Am sending you 2 cards.