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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. 
