Letters to Mrs R. H. Caldwell, from her son Robert Douglas Caldwell and other soldiers, 1917-1919 - Page 191

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getting it cold now but I am sure I wont call Australia cold ever again after experiencing a winter over here in the trenches. You have been asking me in your last letters what it is like in the line & what I felt like first time in. Well the first time in during Jan. we were on a very quite front with only machine guns to worry us. These never got anyone the whole time in but at first they used to get the wind up us as the saying over here is. When anyone gets frightened & if a shell came within

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