Pte Harry Boxall (Silvan), Australian Camel Corps: In the field in Egypt. In a letter to the students at the Mt Evelyn State School – ‘Many, many thanks for the kind gift of tobacco. The weed and the knowledge that so many kind hearts are thinking of our welfare and comfort help us to pass the long winter nights away. We are on a tough job and are determined to do it thoroughly so that you will not be called on to do it over again in a few years’ time. Though we miss our homes and our friends we make ourselves as comfortable and as happy as circumstances permit, and we all hope to be back again in out dear sunny Australia by the end of the present year’.