Pte Arthur Mattingley (Wandin), Divisional Ammunition Column: In camp in Egypt. In a letter to a friend in Wandin – ‘We are still camped at Cleopatra near Alexandria. Troops of all descriptions are here – Tommies, Australians, French and Indians with their various arms and armaments. The soldiers daily bathe in Cleopatra’s Pool which is at times very rough, consequently many of the swimmers get into difficulties and it has been my lot to save eight lives since I have been here. On another occasion I found a derelict of a woman being ill-treated by a native policeman so I promptly took her from the bobby and administered a punch or two. As an outcome of this I was invited to a Greek Baptism which is a peculiar affair’.