Part 02: Rex Nixon letters, 21 May 1915-27 December 1916 - Page 197
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time over there. Anzac Day was a great celebration day in London, they are in the boom absolutely. Wait till all the "Heroes of Gallipoli" arrive back in Australia, but am sorry to say there are not too many left of them, especially the 1st Division. Rupe is a silly clown to ever enlist again, it seems as if he is eager to get all the huns this time, instead of the Turks.
Somehow I think the war will be all over soon (no not the world) or by three 9 or four months time, especially the way in which the Russians, and
Italians are carrying on; we are always moving ahead too, the tide has at least turned. Everything is muddy where the rain has been; great pools of water or slippery ground; never mind it's good fot the crops. The French farmers who are not a mile away from our first line