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Palace that night. I rose fairly early the next morning, & caught the Coogee tram, & went back to Randwick arrived there in time for roll call, & had a sort of breakfast, on tea jam & bread, after this we fell in for drill, what a crowd we were, I suppose there were 9 out of 10 who had never formed four's in their life before, & I was one of them, it was funny to see us trying to get through the most simplest movements, & getting completely boxed up, it was about 3 weeks before, I mastered the form fours properly, I could never remember whether it was the odd or even numbers who had to move we were enough to break any drill instructors heart, & when some of them were spoken to they used
to get quite shirty about it, however they knocked us into some sort of a shape, by the time we left Randwick, to go to Kensington, the day we shifted we had our first route march with full kits up, & water bottles empty, the march was about 8 miles, it seemed more like 20 by the time we finished, every one was glad to see that our tents were up as we marched in. that night we had a good square meal, & by this time we were beginning to get used to roughing it, though I had a terrible cold, I think it was the worst one I ever remember having, I tried all sorts of things to shake it off but all to no good, & I think it cured itself in the end.
By the time we all had our Kakhi