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talk above a whisper, even I can't as the colds we all have are very heavy.  The Tommies reckon we are treated worse than they are & that is bad enough.

I was talking to an English Captain in the train & he said even at the front our men have to bear all the brunt of the heavy dirty work as he says its wonderful the hardships the Australian can stand, but he says they are being knocked up, & that his chaps could not stand half as much as ours & yet for all this they are as happy as larry, but a terrible lot of discontents, as our pay is very erratic, sometimes as much as three & four weeks without a pay & then perhaps a ten bob note and if you are lucky 15/-.

Every one of the soldiers who were

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