Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 171
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to be French Leave and you can bet your life that I'll be there.
This crowd are nowhere near the first lot I sailed with, and seem very slow, and have no fun and I reckon that there should be plenty of sport on a troopship - we havent even got a band on board. The weather is beginning to get jolly hot and as the boys dont believe in too many clothes you'd scream to see the "get ups" as very little is worn and we are all getting black with the sun.
We had the bad luck to lose one of our men so he was dumped over the side.
We all got paid yesterday & so now we are waiting patiently for Durban. I forgot to get films for my little camera as I'm missing some good snaps so I must get ashore somehow. There are 40 returned men on board and are different from the others, & after we leave Africa I am sending the group to the Sydney Mail, but you wont be able to recognise me as I have had