William Ambrose Cull letter diary, 1915-1918 - Page 101
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[Page 101]
No 5 from Gallipoli
No 5
Gallipoli
1-10-15
Dear Dad Mum & All
Cannot write you a long letter this time – but will make up for it next letter. I hope that you are all well at home – I am just the thing, excepting for an attack of Diarrhoea – quite a common ailment here –
It is twenty-eight days to-day since I went into the firing line.
It will take a lot of Active Service to make me old and weary looking – Not nearly the worry of the drill parade –
You say that the mail does not arrive in Australia every week – that you have a bye – every so often. Then at times you should get two letters per mail from me, for I'm sure that I have written almost every week. I shall drop you an Active Service Post Card as well as letters, for you are rather certain to get the Cards, even when letters may be kept back, as I believe they sometimes are – the Cards would be promptly delivered – and they do Convey one bit of intelligence – that at time of posting – I was well –
We have had some good news from the "West" - The set-back in the "East" seems to have been seized as the favourable opportunity for the promised drive – at anyrate it seems that things are a-doing.