Part 02: Rex Nixon letters, 21 May 1915-27 December 1916 - Page 457
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2.
are having a royal time.
Talk about souvenirs, I've enough to give everybody in Sydney one; no shells or guns or minerwerfers but little souv's such as watches, daggers, and revolvers, knuckle dusters; I have enough german money to buy a box of iron crosses.
Rupe is missing all the fun, he is, or was when he wrote last, down at the base, waiting for the boat to go home; let him go I'll get his and mine together, so long as he gets back to the land O' Plenty.
Our Battalion have had a rough spin but have killed, captured or taken prisoner about five thousand since he started his funny business. The attacks on Brettoneoux were worse than Glebe Island, I never saw so many dead Huns in all my natural - we took it and ten kilos past it in two hours with a four minute straffe, and only had five casualties in the division.
The Yanks are doing good work too but have a great deal to