54938: Letter from Jack Tait sent from Palestine (1)

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.