State Library of NSW
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Sunday 1 July 1917
[The following paragraph crossed through.]Mail in at last letters from Mother, Day, Joe 6/5/17 & 13/8/17, Percy Smith with photo of "Spot" – I can hear the men saying – "It would do me to be walking down that little path" etc. etc. Some are pretty home sick.
Flies very bad – just put "insecticide" on my head to keep them off while writing. On the Mediteranean the flies really bite, these don't.
[The following sentence crossed through.]Glad all well at home. English mail very late, fear some has gone down in the Mediteranean.
We are expecting General ALANBY who supersedes MURRAY.
[The following sentence crossed through.]The latter did not like the Australians – but thought them good common fodder.
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