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to start talking races to him - then everyone would disappear & in the end he would be talking to two or three - the rest would be playing cards or developing photos. Every day he used to come down to our  quarters & give us the "good oil" that is anything in the wind he  may have heard in the officers mess - we would ask him silly questions & he would talk for hours. Another game we would get up to when he was about. Someone would sing and "Harry" the Doc would turn round & the chap would pretend to be addressing one of the other boys. Old "Harry" was one of the boys all the time & we were all very sorry to lose him - none now like the originals. Mrs Cox or Johnny Leah will tell you what a great fellow "Harry" was.

I am glad you have met Mrs Bichford. Her son young Dick is very nice little chap - he is our bugler.

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