Part 02: Rex Nixon letters, 21 May 1915-27 December 1916 - Page 179
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been hot like it was on Gallipoli, we would have had more stench. After the battle at Lone Pine and for week after the place smelt most vile, as we could not get the bodies in; the germans & ourselves this time arranged between themselves not to fire a shot, if not exactly an armistice, as our divisional commander would not allow any. The huns had a sign after the smash in their trench, "you were fourty-eight hours too late". They are always putting up sign boards, but only for our fellows to put their heads up, and so get a shot.
Opposite us we have the saxons, and they are almost neutral; before when the crack regiment of germany was there, the "Prussina Guard" they we always looking for fight, they got it too. Every thing we receive from Fritzy & Co we give them back a receipt in triplicate.
How do you like your work? I suppose you always see one of our fellows at G. M. & Co in the same building, on a message. Do you ever see Geo Daley or Joe Swan now? Reg Healy was in our trench to-day, and I took pity on him & gave him some tea and cake, which I made. I am the Major's batman now, not one of those common privates. His batman was wounded in nine places & I was only a few yards away at the time. The huns shelled us for nearly six hours, didn't even stop for breakfast