Part 01: Rupert Nixon letters, 28 November 1914-2 October 1917 - Page 85
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[Page 85]
1st Southern General Hospital
Dudley Road Sect.
Birmingham
20th May /16.
Dear Mother,
Last time I wrote was when nearing Gibraltar. We reached Southampton after a smooth passage through the Bay of Biscay. We entrained at Southampton & we Australian soldiers will never forget the many kindnesses shown us by the thousands of people who thronged the few stations at which the train stopped and they gave us hot tea, fruit cakes, cigarettes & chocolates galore; & when we reached our final stopping place, we were greeted from the thousands assembled.
The peopel of this City drove us to this hospital in their own motors & flowers & fruit were thrown into the cars by the throng. This is a huge building being the Birmingham University & contains 1700 beds; I am nearly alright again but in about five or six weeks, expect to be shipped back to the scrap.