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Palestine Ap 5th 1918

I received your letter of March 12th today. The weather here is very like our winter, plenty of rain and hailstones but I think the snow is finished now. You would hardly think there could be snow in Jerusalem, but it is right as

Letter sent from Palestine to his mother by my grandfather who fought in Palestine 1917-1918. He was a truchk driver with the Desert Mounted Corps.

Editor's Comment:
Driver T4/143045 Jack Tait, Army Service Corps (Later service no. ET/50689). The Egyptian Expeditionary Force, of which the Desert Mounted Corps was a part, had captured Jerusalem on 9th December 1917.

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Identifier

5717.txt| GWA_3996_Letter_sent_from_Palestine.txt|

Creator

Tait, Jack

Date

5th April 1918

Date Created

01/08/1914

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1918

Source

Unknown

Medium

Text: Transcription

Type

Letter

Pages

1

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Donald R Tait

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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