Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 110
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put the bandages on me when I got to the dressing base after being hit. I am sending some papers & you can all see what a name & good work our suntanned men have made.
George Reid is coming down from London to see our N.S.W. men tomorrow & the N. Zealanders had a visit from their representative yesterday.
Before the first batch leaves for our base at Alexandria their is a concert to be given to all the Australasian troops & the King & Queen are to be present.
Pretty nearly all the chaps you shook hands to when leaving camp at Liverpool are under the ground & up to the 20th there had been 9000 casualities & out of that 3000 were buried as you will see by the papers which I am forwarding.
All the light horse men have volunteered to go as infantry to the Dardanelles as the country is too bad for the horses but I think they will come in handy when our men get further in as the maps show there is plenty of level ground towards Constantinople & there is sure to be some solid work in front of us.