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Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home

6 November 1941 'Out in the Blue' B Coy 24th Bn N.Z.E.F. Middle East Forces

6 November 1941 'Out in the Blue' B Coy 24th Bn N.Z.E.F. Middle East Forces

Dear Mum,

Some of the waadis round here are not as bare as most of the desert and we see on manoeuvres an occasional herd of goats or sheep. In places very stunted fig trees grow together with poor specimens of box thorn and little shrubs and growth like fly-catchers, camel-grass and little heather-like bushes. Around an oasis a few miles away is a few date palms and bigger trees and an area of twitch grass. By the way there's no clear bubbling spring and pond but pipes down to an underground well.