Photostat copy of diaries of Benjamin Bennett Leane, 1915-1916 - Part 10

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having our first - and last -
taste of "high life", thanks
to the war.  Well, well,
I'd sooner be in my own
little home, with you, any
time, and the sooner this
false bottomed prosperity
comes to an end the better
will I be pleased.
Sunday March 12th 1916.
Kiddie, I wish you could
have been with me today
dear.  This afternoon
four of us hired a motor
and drove out to the
Barrage, about 15 miles
the other side of Cairo.  The
day was perfect and
the ride most enjoyable.
I never knew that such
a beautiful spot existed
in Egypt.  Acres and acres
of well kept lawns, bright
flower beds, shady trees
and palms; the most
ever pleasing paradise I have
seen since I left England.
We stayed an hour or so
and then motored back
home again. In the
evening [[Deveson?]] and I went
to dinner at the [[?]]
and spent a quiet evening
yarning and smoking in
the garden afterwards.
Monday, March 13^th 1916.
Orders to move at last.
This afternoon I received R
instructions to report at Tel el
Kebir tomorrow, so have
 

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wired Ray that I will be
down there tomorrow at
noon.  I have been in
town this afternoon making
one or two necessary [[funct?]]
and have just finished
packing my boxes.
Today I received a
letter from you dated
February 8^th written just
after you had received the
wire re my transfer to the
Camel Corps.  Dear old
girl, I wish you could
do as you say and
take ship for England.
Wouldn't it be boring
and if, as we are told but
which I very much doubt,
we go to France presently,
why then think how near we
would be to each other.
Sunday 14^th March
Here I am at last, back
at Tel-el-Kebir again.  Penny and
I came down by the 11 am
train, reaching here shortly
after 1pm.  Graham came
down by the same train, on
his way to Ismalia.  Poor old
Graham is not at all happy in
the Camel Corps, and wants to
come with me to the 48^th. I have
promised to see Ray & drop
Graham a note as to the result.
The adjutant for some reason or
other has his knife into Graham, and
is constantly finding fault with
his position on parade.  I told
Graham the other day that if I were