October 3,1915 Dardanelles,
Turkey

Dear Mr. Welsh,

The country is really quite pretty and just like the hills and valleys of South Wales, but there are no brooks or rivers. It rain hard for a month each year usually about this time and then there is no more until the next rainy season. But although it is so gloriously sunny something is wrong with the place and it really isn’t as healthy as it looks. I think the files have something to do with it as well as the heat. There are millions and millions of flies here and they are Ll over everything. Put a cap of tea down without a cover and it is immediately covered with dead ones, they are all round your mouth and directly you open it to speak or to eat in they pop. It is a game. We have all got nets of course, we should have been worried, no medicine by now if we hadn’t.

Kind regards
Your sincerely, H. W. Cronin, Lieutenant.

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