Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 78
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At times our fire was so continuous that my rifle got too hot to hold to hold & I used one of the turk's as there were plenty of them about & bullets too so they had a taste of what their led feels like as the ones I had happened to be a clip of dum dums. There were pelnty of their bullets that had been taken out & turned round & when they hit you they spread out like a pancake.
On the Thursday our division made a flank movement which was about three miles & we crossed a wonderful garden of nature. On the cliff are great yellow poppies growing in wild confusion & there are white orchids rock irises & fields of white & yellow daisies intermingled with brick red pea & yellow clover with all kinds of other coloured flowers. Apricots & olives were numerous too but we didn't have time to sample them. We had gone about two miles through this sort of wild garden without a spell, but we got one further