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R. Nixon
4th Section 1
F  Compy 2
13th Battalion 3
4th Australian Infantry Brigade 4
England 5
Victoria Barracks
Melbourne

"F" Compy
13th Battalion
Broadmeadows
Melbourne

Friday 18/12/14

Dear Mother

I have been looking every day for the last eight days for news from somebody at "The Nest", are you all away or sick? as I have written I don't know how many times but no answer comes but never you mind now as it's too late as we go aboard on Sunday morning.

Well we had our march through the city & we the 13th made a great name for ourselves & I can tell you it was an impressive sight when we swung along through the streets. I don't know if the guns from the North Sea had anything to do by the silence of the crowd but the vast

  

  

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