Joseph, I am very happy to be invited to provide a commemoration for your military service, since I have been providing commemorations for other soldiers who died while serving in Egypt and whose graves were in Alexandria. As I write these words I am sitting in my own home in Bricket Wood, not very far away from your old home in Park Street. I myself did my National Service in Egypt, but it was in the Suez Canal Zone in peacetime. I trust that you had a Guard of Honour at your funeral service, who fired the traditional salute to a fallen comrade. My sincere sympathy to your relatives who mourned your sacrifice. Rest in Peace. Harry.

Henry Harrison