TIRED MAIN BODY MEN.
A Main Body soldier '••■lo has been wounded three times, writin , f. m Franc? on August 12, says--') have been exactly three years in this outfit _ to-day. If you were feeling fed up ]•-:■ before you left Gallipoli, you can aialifl "je sort of a ""vild guess what I 'Win. about the matter. I wish we were .•ere 'iko the Australians. Their Main V'jv men are going back to Australia, ] believe our Defence Minister has toid 'he public of New Zealand that we- are 'frothing' to see things through to the end. That ia'i probably hue of those who have landed., nice 'cushy' jobs, but t&e few old hands who are over here, after having received, wounds in the Mew dies stunt, have a different tale to tell, and it would do Swl James Allen's heart g.wd to heal' wfe« they lijivo to gay ia tha >i\attflS» . . '% <.. .*'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16658, 1 October 1917, Page 4
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