Pte Donald Fergus Scott (Mt Evelyn), 6^th Battalion: At Mena Camp, Cairo. In a letter to his family – ‘As a camp it is miles ahead of Broadmeadows. We don’t have to eat our meals out in the open they have built mess rooms for each company where you can buy a good cup of coffee or cocoa for half piaster also cakes and soft drinks at the same price. To each brigade there is a dry and wet canteen and cook houses, ice cream shops, laundries, fancy goods, shops, tailors, boot shops, a place where you can get a hot bath for four piasters, watchmakers, two picture theatres, one variety show, five or six extra restaurants – all exclusively for the benefit of the soldier. So we have not much to grumble about’.