with Alec McCowen The second of three programmes compiled and written by BARRY CARMAN Narrator JOHN ROWE After his first idyllic years In Egypt Joseph McPherson was caught up tn the Middle East conflicts of the Great
War. He served as a Red Cross officer at Galllpoli and then as a lieutenant In the Camel Transport
Corps In the Sinai desert. In his letters to relatives In England, now published for the first time, he describes these experiences and concludes with a moving farewell to his life as a soldier and to his beloved horse Tammuz: ' My day's delight Is past. my horse Is gone.'
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK