In his book Memories of a Signaller, Harold Hinckfuss wrote of the furphies (rumors) of pending movements of troops, while awaiting transfer to the French lines from Egypt. Quoting Hinckfuss, "Every day in the tent someone would come up with a furphy that he had heard whilst down at the latrines. That is why the different stories were called furphies; furphy was the term used for a fart."