Private Papers of H H Kassman – Airgraph from Kassman to Mother, April 3, 1943
Date:
03.04.1943
Location:
קהיר
Personality:
H. Henry Kassman
Organization:
הצבא הבריטי
Archive:
Imperial War Museum (IWM)
Folder Number:
Gunner HH Kassman 4-8.1943
Description
Page 1: Airgraph to mother. Mail, usefulness of multiple languages in local interactions (mainly with shopkeepers). Anecdotes about the use of English for swearing by speakers of other languages (including by a Viennese opera singer) and carbonated lemonade being sold in Cairo as “gazoozah” (from the French “gazeuse”).
[Kassman may have been in Libya at this point.]
