Karachi.

19^th May.

Dear Mother.

The mails seem just as groggy here as at home. I’ve not had your last mail letters yet. The mail does’nt get in till Monday 22, & those are the letters that left England April 28^th.

Nothing doing very exciting. We’ve had some of the people who were wounded & shut up in Kut. Very thin & delapidated poor things.

It gets hotter nowadays & if it were’nt for the breeze it would be as bad as Assam.

I wonder if poor Topher ever got any leave after all. I shall hope to hear how the Easter party went off in your next letter.

Best love to all. Too hot to write anymore.

Your loving son     Richard.

I am playing cricket tomorrow Military v Civil, I’m playing for the military of course.

Accounts of the Siege of Kut

• http://en.paperblog.com/book-review-the-siege-1969-russell-braddon-953422/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kut
• http://www.winkleighheroes.co.uk/level3/kutdeathmarch.htm

Disturbing photographs of starving prisoners from the Siege of Kut

• http://levantineheritage.com/prisoners.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kut#/media/File:Indian_army_soldier_after_siege_of_Kut.jpg