Telegram - 2 May 1915 - all well

Athol sends a telegram to mother on 2 May from Hospital at Alexandria, Egypt. The people back home had received sketchy reports of the landing and would have been anxious to know about their lads. A telegram saying 'all is well' would have been received with great relief.

The text reads:

Quite well love Adams

We know now that Athol had been injured twice on the 25th April, Anzac Day, so perhaps he was not 'quite well'. He received bullet wounds in his left wrist and left upper arm. He would have sent this from the Hospital in Alexandria when about to return to the Gallipoli peninsular and re-join the 5th Battalion.