Trp Albert Briers (Lilydale), 4^th Light Horse Regiment: At Mena Camp, Egypt. In a letter to his sister in Lilydale – ‘We are camped about four miles from Cairo City on a sandy desert and I can tell you it is rather cold at night and fairly warm in the day. Cairo is a very big place and it is pretty easy to lose yourself there. There are millions of people and the streets are about a chain wide. I have heard a lot about the slums of London but I don’t think they could be any worse than here. About 20 of us went through the slums one night. You can see fowls, dogs, cats people etc all living together’.