To his mother, now planning to return to India via Baghdad. Visited front-line with Auchinleck and Tony Phillpotts, his assistant, flew there in a Lockhead Lodestar and camped in the desert. Indian troops using captured Italian guns to attack them. Again wishes a Merry Xmas and hopes they can meet in 1942.
Dated at C in C's house, Gezira, Cairo.