Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 193
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[Page 193]
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After coming all these thousands of miles to do our bit we are not getting a fair deal & I have said they are simply killing our men.
When a man's cold gets bad he goes on sick parade & all the doctor says, a route march will do you good & marks on your sick report "duty".
Well two different mornings a chap out of the 15th went up to this doctor & he was sent on parade & the doctor said he would crime him if he came again & the same night this man died & this is not the only case.
The weather here is the worst winter for a number of years as you may have heard & we fall in at 6.30 am (pitch dark) & freezing - dismissed at 7 - fall in at 7-40 & then go out for phyiscal [physical] drill till 11 oclock after being made take our puttees & tunics off & there we are.
There is scarcely a man who can