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28. 6. 15.
My dear Mother,

Your letters of 10th, 12th, & 17th May also several papers to hand in a bundle. The last parcel you sent has not arrived yet, but then no one here has received any for some time past, so I suppose it will come along by a later mail. It is a wonder to me that some men who are returned to Australia as medically unfit are not kept on at various bases to do light work such as postal clerks etc. I know there are many who would prefer such work to being returned as useless. They would feel that in spite of a weak body they were still able to help their country in some direct way, thus fulfilling the intentions with which they joined. James is such a man. He came to the front too soon after the operation. I am not certain, but think he will be returned to Australia. I know it nearly broke his heart to leave here. Rose has also been sent into hospital, he looked very ill when I saw him last. He and Ray Smith are great friends,  & knowing Nurse  Smith, that is how I came to know Rose & Smith better perhaps than many of the other men.

Like everyone else here we are all wondering how long we will have to stay here in fact how long the big war (with all the smaller wars) is to last. Or as I heard someone put it "I wonder how long the Hooluns [?] & Huns are going to keep this racket up." I take it he meant Huns when he said Hooluns. Why quibble when a man is understood

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