Item 05: Letters from Christopher Kenneth Millar to his mother, 9 April-18 July 1915 - Page 10

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director & English women nurses too which makes it all the worse. The food is dead crook worse than our own cooks used to give us in camp, nothing to tempt a sick man at all. There are some cases they treat alright with food though, one chap in this ward comes in for a lot of good things & he only has a hit in the arm, it is broken I think, but there are men here worse than he, the darned place is a mystery to me, I wish to goodness I had been sent to our own Hospital, but as luck happened it was full.
I can't quote figures of wounded etc. or the letter will be "done in" by the censor.
To give you an idea of the heavy casualty list one Company had its Captain, & two Lieuts. killed & wounded & the other two are missing that is out of six officers, the men were knocked about in the same manner.
Our boys have made a name for Australia that will live in history. I sent you a local paper with an account of our landing I hope it reached you alright. Don't forget to let