Part 02: Rex Nixon letters, 21 May 1915-27 December 1916 - Page 128
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knowledge who went mad,through drinking salt water; they drank anything at all. Talk about packs, well you could have made an ordnance from those two villages. Rifles and all were thrown down, all to exhausted to carry them. Some men came in with just boots, trousers, and hats, some men even had trousers on. The 55th bn band struck up "Its a Long way to Tiperary", [Tipperary] but after trying to play through the instruments away. I suppose the arabs will have a band now. The N. Zs even came to where we were camped and played the band. They did anything at all, and would ask if there was anything we wanted doing. NZs are all men. They brough [brought] all in except fifteen who