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[Page 391]

France
23/6/18

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Dear Mother

[indecipherable - a pressed flower covering the first sentences.]

The news of Fritz's advances seems to have shocked the Sydney people some but you know better now. It ought to shake up some of the long thinkers. Carmichael seems to have given recruiting a bit of an impetus. Rather a coincidence that I was wearing Car's steel helmet for a time. He came through our dressing stn. wounded & of course dumped his tin hat. I acquired it then & was wearing it for some time & some one else acquired it from me. In your time over here you may wear a hundred different hats. There are so many lying about that you can discard & exchange as often as you like. It is

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