Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 205
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Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
Codford
Salisbury Plns.
Feb. 19th 1917
Dear Mother
Still whispering but smiling just the same, when I get my voice back I'm not going to stop talking for about a year.
Have to appear before the "quack" this afternoon as the draft leave here tomorrow night - 300 of us.
Have had no letters from Australia yet but I think they must be in France as a lot of the 22nd Reinfts are they [there] & some already killed.
They are talking of shortening the bit of line the Australian troops hold as they are losing any amount & not enough to take their places. The Colonel read this out in this mornings orders on Parade. Four of our men were killed last night on a route march by a motor car trying to break through the ranks, but I was not there having disappeared half an hour previously.