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January 15th:
Saturday – fine day – quiet.
January 16th:
Sunday. Visit to Heliopolis. Bert Argall shows me round the town. Have tea together. Am stoney broke, so Bert pays the piper. We attend American Soldiers Y.M.C.A. service.
January 19th:
Meet Fizzr Flin and hear about Hay.
January 20th:
First Route March with full pack, around Heliopolis. Visit Obelisk (erected three hundred years before birth of Moses). Visit Holy Tree and Mary's Well. March about seven miles – not yet able to do my fifteen miles.
January 23rd:
Church Parade. Shift camp, from tents into huts.
January 24th:
Route march, with full pack. Rain in afternoon. Rain at night time came through roof of huts.
January 25th:
Route march to dry our clothes.
January 26th:
Anniversary Day. Bert Argall and I pay a visit in the