Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 202
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Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
Codford
Salisbury
Feb. 13th 1917
Dear Mother
You will see I'm still here as the draught didn't go last night, but will go anytime & we have to be ready to make a move at any minute so I'm sending a few more lines but the Lord only knows if it will reach you as so many boats are being sent to rest on the bottom of the sea.
Have a rotten sore throat, red raw, & cant swallow anything but soft tack & the quack has put me on light duty yesterday & no duty to-day.
I am enclosing a few lines about Anzacs as everytime the Australians have a fight its the Anzacs this & that & as a matter of fact there are very few of the real Anzacs left so I put this together on the Port Nicholson. I would have sent it before but I have only just been going through my gear & came across lots of things I'd like to do up in a parcel but I'm not going to send parcels as it will never get there so I'm going to send