Cpl William Aicher (Mt Evelyn), 6^th Battalion: At Mena Camp. In a letter to a friend in Mt Evelyn – ‘There was a bit of a fight here in Cairo between the natives and the soldiers on Thursday, and myself and four others just escaped serious damage. Five of us were having a look at the native quarters when the blacks suddenly attacked us and drove us into a blind alley and then attacked us with chairs, sticks, stones and various other articles. They got very savage and I thought it was all up with us, so we got right into them knocking many about. Mr Scott’s son Fergus and I stuck well together and came out of the fray with minor bruises. There must have been nearly 100 of the black rascals but they all showed the white feather when we knocked a dozen or so of them about’.