Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 83
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notice & just smiled when a shell burst over the water & sometimes nearly swamping them, it just seemed to them a matter of course.
Since being here I have been photographed by three different people one being a newspaper man & they say its wonderful the way the bullet went right through my neck without breaking some fatal spot & the doctor says I ought to get a ticket in lotto.
I may tell you that I couldn't eat or drink anything for about 4 days not even my own saliva, so you can imagine the appetite I had & the worst of it they wouldn't give me a good feed, I only got milk but I used to get some of the other's who got ordinary meals. My neck has healed & you can scarcely see the scar & I think the scars will go away so when I get back I'm not going to tell anyone for they will call me a liar.
Will have to be drawing to a close soon.