Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 69
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[Page 69]
look forward to the one thing and that is to get there, do what is set out for us to do, and then to come back to those we love.
Nell, it is the one picture I see when I sit and think of home, which is very often, and that is the home coming. Once I get there I don't think I will ever leave it again, although under the same circumstances, we all would do the same again I feel sure.
A chap does not realise what he is giving up till he leaves Australian shores, and then it comes home to him. I promise you I intend to make up for it all, when I get back, which I feel confident I am going to do.
We had a first class concert the other night. There are some first class artists on board although to look at them unshaven and dressed (or undressed) as they are you could not by any stretch of