Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
A.C.F. Protected Troops From Souvenir Sellers
By C. C. Faulkner
Back in February, 1940, the first Australians arrived in Palestine. Ten days later Col. R. S. Goward, the honorary Chief Commissioner of the Australian Comforts Fund, who was travelling with the troops, took over the modernised Fast Hotel in Jerusalem and turned it into a club and hostel.
The boys revelled in the hot and cold showers, for the Holy City abounds in flies and dirt. Some day a statistics addict will announce how many thousands of meals the boys enjoyed, the number of free bus rides between the encampments and the city.
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In Jerusalem the A.C.F. established barbers’ shops, set up jewellers and watch repairers. The boys did not have to argue about the charge; that had all been arranged in advance.
Track to Shower Rooms
At Alexandria the Comforts Fund took over the Atlantic Hotel. A nice thick carpet