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[Page 70]

[Postcard]
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[UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE
POST CARD – CARTE POSTALE – POSTKARTE etc]
By the time you get this note you will be able to say that your son has been in the trenches for some weeks – that is of course should the few who seemed so keenly anxious still appear anxious re my where-abouts and intentions.

They could know of my applications, eleven I think, of my six month at Broadmeadows, (five of the six, instructing recruits – of my offer of a Commission in the Regular Army – etc.

One thing I should like and that is for a few of the old people up Casterton way to know how things are with me and d – mm H'mlton.

Yes, Dad – "Caution" is, of course part of that "Duty" which I owe to my country, and I certainly recognize it. It is part of our training – as witness the farewel farewell words of one of our

[93 LE CAIRE. Le Grand Pont de Kasr-el-Nil. – LL.]

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