State Library of NSW
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7.5.18
Dear Mother Father & Sister
Am just going out to "help the boys" again 3rd time in 3 nights, not bad going, but oh! I am tired, spent an hour in the rain lying in a half grown crop last night under almost the nose of a fritzie post, verey lights "sissled" round our party, we were crawling round out there for 5 hours, came in, & after waiting an hour in a shed we went out again at dawn to tape out a trench, a bullet passed through a bag of tape that I was carrying. I'm tired but jolly happy, ran into some gas awful stuff they call it yellow gas the effect in the heart is mighty quick.
This war is a silly old bis. I would be just as happy if it ceased.
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