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59day of it. It would be about 4/30 when we finished for the day. Route marches proved a good part of the training and it was very hard work trudging through the sand.
The Instructional staff at the Bullring comprise officers and men who had seen service up the line and were out for a spell to recuperate although there were some who had specially been trained and picked for exceptional ability. We did a lot of skirmishing in extended order – bayonet fighting – our opponents being bags and then what I would term a practice turn of trench warfare, complying to the conditions we would have to undergo in France.
Here too we came in contact with troops from other parts of the Empire, Canadians, Scotch, English. The Jocks would go about
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