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regiment of the Cheshires included plenty of 

 soldiers who when off duty liked their sea-fishing 

 from the jetty. They were stationed right on 

 the shore, and were of the approved type of 

 patient anglers. 



At Port Sudan, Red Sea Province, it was the 

 same. There was even a sea-fishing competition 

 there, arranged by a sporting officer of a detach- 

 ment of Northumberland Fusiliers to foster 

 interest in the sport among his men. Many and 

 varied, and curiously coloured, are the sea fish at 

 Port Sudan. If you take a small boat to cross 

 over by the mouth of the river you can see them 

 in the clear water as plainly as if they were in an 

 aquarium. The late Mr. F. G. Aflalo wrote 

 some interesting articles about the sport to be 

 obtained there. 



At Khartoum, in 1918, the Nile of course 

 attracted the devotees of angling from amongst 

 the garrison soldiers stationed there. A sturdy 

 Scottish gamekeeper, a private in the Northumber- 

 land Fusiliers, attached to the R.A.S.C., at 

 Mogram, about two miles out of Khartoum, 

 hooked and landed a Nile fish of about ten 

 pounds weight, which 1 saw. This gamekeeper, 

 who hailed from Wigtownshire, and who before 

 the war had never been more than a few miles 

 away from his village, had now travelled indeed. 

 His two hobbies at home were grouse and bees, 

 though he could lend an efficient hand to almost 

 any out-of-door work. For his unselfish dis- 

 position he was greatly liked by his comrades. 



