Letters written to his family from Egypt & Palestine [PRG 1511/1] • Manuscript
Letters written to his family from Egypt & Palestine
A selection of fifteen World War I letters, January 1916 - December 1918, written by Bert Penna to his mother and family in Sevenhills, South Australia while he was serving in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt, Heliopolis and Palestine. He describes the people he meets, including some whom he knows from the Clare Valley.