Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 386
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[Page 386]
be able to read more about it for yourself. I do not want a similar experience.
Notification has been received that mails may be posted at Adan without censorship and thus the coast is clear for everybody to write their secret impression to this loved ones he has left behind and avoid the indelicacy of the same being by some inquisitive official. Tonight we expect to come up in view of land again in the shape of Socotra Island, which in our case is about two days from Aden. As the mail closes on our ship at 8pm on Tuesday night the 24th inst. I propose to close this narative and get it ready to mail you, but will continue to note everything of interest and suppliment my first effort by the a similar one from England.
[Handwritten note:]
II
Dear Girls:/
This is an original account by Captain Williams of the 10th Battln. Infty [Lieutenant John Williams, 11th Infantry Battalion]. He is a friend of the best Australian. Joined the force in Queensland. Was in South Africa. He will make a name for himself here if luck favour him. He starts for the front in a few days. I shall be sorry because he is a manly fellow honest, and fit for the Company of Men. Such a change from Martin, Springthorpe & Gray. He left Brisbane as Liutnt & is now Captain; & he will soon be Major, he has capacity for any position. A natural soldier whom any Senior officer of fighting instincts must push on.
J B Nash 10-5-15
11 a.m.