The Muddle East

"Syria—it was all new country, and what a change to see grass along the railway tracks, and trees and olive and citrus groves freely scattered about the landscape. We camped for two nights in an olive prove near Haifa, then proceeded up the Lebanon coast . . . the land is green."

So writes Garth Wallace from Svria, where the New Zealand Division till recently was stationed. Wallace in a later letter laments that he is up among the snows with a surveying unit, clutching a revolver in one frostbitten hand, a theodolite in the other, and a set square between his chattering teeth.

Others stationed in this sector are: Major I. A. Hart, Captain R. R. T. Young, and R. I. Thomas, Alan Wilton, Allan E. Kennard, Pryor Lee, Ken. Gough, Charles Gallagher, Ray Menendez, Tanu Jowett, D. G. Steele, G. G. Rae, E. R. Chesterman, C. Camp, A. G. Holms, and D. Gerard.