Part 02: Rex Nixon letters, 21 May 1915-27 December 1916 - Page 154
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Egypt
June 8th 1916
Dear Gin,
Only a few lines this time as I am very busy, and pested out with flies. You cannot do any thing without these pests about; especially on a hot day, well these days over here are always hot: Do you still go in for your sports, swimming etc. We are having some sports in our division next Saturday, so I hope we will suceed like we did on "Anzac" day; we won sixty % of the prizes on that famous day. I suppose you have heard by this of the great naval battle in the North Sea; we are still mistress of the sea, and shall always be so. The Russians have also had a great victory, capturing twenty five thousand 25,000 prisoners. From a letter which one of our coves got from "Somewhere" in France seems as though they were waiting for a chance to go into the firing line; my old battalion is there now, so I hope we will be soon there. Reports from the Navy in the Egyptian Gazette, state that Lord Kitchener was drowned on the cruiser "Hampshire" which was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands, on her way
to Russia.