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Well things are very quiet We go down to the beach nearly every day & have a wash as fresh water is so scarce.
Well I am many miles away from Anzac now.
On the 27th Nov. 15 in the evening it came up very cold & windy & talk about blow well it nearly blew our roof off our dug-out but anyway by two of us hanging on to one corner of it we we managed to save it from being blown off. when we I woke up in the morning of the 28th to our surprise I we found that snow was falling the first time in my life that I had ever seen snow. of course we had some fun snow balling one another. about 4 pm in the evening I got a fit of the cold shivers & could not get warm. things were very quiet & as I could not hold my head up I layed down in the dug out & tryed tried to go to sleep but I was so cold my mates gave me their over coats & put them over me but I was still cold & my head was nearly bursting I had in the morning I felt terrible bad & about 2 pm on the 29 Nov. they put me on a stretcher & carried me down to the