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34recording and that is the conduct of the Orderly towards me in the No 2 A.G.H. All the morning he treated me very kindly – put mosquito curtains over me and sprinkled water over me to keep me cool.
After dinner he took my temperature and I found it had gone down to 99°. He told me that I could go back to my lines. I said I would but naturally I asked him for a note stating where I had been all the time. This was to cover myself as I wanted some excuse for being A.W.L. He wouldn't give me any. His reason for doing this was probably because he had in the first instance admitted me without an order to do so from the M.O. I remained firm and refused to go without the slip stating where I had been to.
He called in the Staff Sgt and he
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