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"Over There" with the Australians, by R. Hugh
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Title: "Over There" with the Australians
Author: R. Hugh Knyvett
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Language: English
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"OVER THERE" WITH THE AUSTRALIANS
by
CAPTAIN R. HUGH KNYVETT
ANZAC Scout Intelligence Officer, Fifteenth Australian Infantry
[Frontispiece: Captain R. Hugh Knyvett.]
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1918 Copyright, 1918, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published April, 1918
BILL-JIM'S CHRISTMAS
(Bill-Jim is Australia's name for her soldier)
Here where I sit, mucked-up with Flanders mud,
Wrapped-round with clothes to keep the Winter out,
Ate-up wi' pests a bloke don't care to name
To ears polite,
I'm glad I'm here all right;
A man must fight for freedom and his blood
Against this Ger