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Albany Advertiser (WA: 1897 - 1950), Saturday 4 September 1915, page 3

Letters From The Front

Private Hubert Kitson, in writing to his mother in Albany from Gallipoli on July 23, says :— "Just a few lines to let you know I am quite well, excepting my ribs. I got hit to-day. They are pretty sore but nothing serious. That is another one I've got in for "Jacky". I suppose it is very quiet there now and cold. It is the other way about here. I see where the people are having a lot of plays there in aid of us. lt is very good of them. I am surprised about a lot of young fellows there not coming, when you see men here old enough to be their grand-fathers. It ought to shame them. They might wake up some time or other.

"We are having a spell out of the trenches just at present; but would sooner be in them. You are worse off than in them. It is funny, but all the time I was in hospital I never received any letters. I know there are a lot for me, but have not received them yet. They don't trouble whether you get them or not, what I can see of it. There is not much news; you will have to send all the news. I received the papers about a fortnight ago. You can send some, more if you like. I shall be pleased when it is over. I don't think it will be long here. Where we are two months will see it through. I see in the paper, where I got shot. You can tell them I was not running away. Most of the Albany boys have been wounded, but all are coming back again looking for some more. I suppose you have seen in the papers where some of them have been writing letters about the fighting. Chapman is the only one who has given a true account of it. These fellows say they threw Turks over their shoulders, and had a fight and fell down the cliffs into the sea. These are a lot of lies. The closest part is 20 yards from the water. So I cannot see how they fell into the water. The fellows who write those letters were never here; they dreamt it in Egypt."

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Kalgoorlie Miner (WA: 1895 - 1950), Saturday 11 January 1919, page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The 'Albany Advertiser' writes: — When volunteers were called for on the outbreak of war, Hubert Kitson mounted a horse and rode out into the bush to find his mate, Harold McGlade. The latter was then employed at the pumping station. Both came into town astride the one horse, and forthwith sought out the recruiting officer. They left to go into camp with the first batch of men from Albany, and sailed with the memorable fleet which formed up in King George's Sound at the end of October, 1914. Both served all through Gallipoli, and then went with their regiment to France, there to remain until leave was given the original Anzacs just before the armistice was signed. Kitson was once wounded, but McGlade, although engaged in all the fighting, was never once wounded, and was never once sick. The two men returned to Albany during the holidays.

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Enlisted and served as Herbert Charles Kitson