Item 04: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1916 - Page 166
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the Post Office and he has been at Hawksebury College (cant spell) - Butter dept.
Wests people had a place but have had to retire as they are too old to work it & the three sons have gone to the war, he himself was a wool classer & an overseer and a merino man. I have asked him up home to show him the Corriedales.
We are going to give each other our peoples addresses and we want you to form a section at home so that you will be always to get news of us. Jack Glennie is also in B squadron so you can always ring up there and get news of us.
It is nice having the small formations in Light Horse; we four can now stick together properly share all our things and take turn about as horse holders for the sections etc. - I do seem to be lucky in always getting with good chaps dont I?
West is bald & Dawson gone quite white so Thorpe & I are the younguns of the section.
Poor old Bill Graham is now reported killed: I have two photos of him taken the day before & if they are any good I will send them to his Father; he lives at Beechwood Hastings River. I thought you might like to write to him. I never heard Bill speak of his mother so don't think he has one. Must go to "stables" now will finish this in the tent