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away by the water, so that night a lot of us camped under & on the grand-stand, & needless to say we passed a most miserable night, next day however most of us got dry clothes & blankets. A fair sample of the days work here would be reveille at 6 o'clock physical exercise from half past six till 7. breakfast at 7.30. fall in at 8. we then would drill till 12. dinner at 12.30. parade again at 2.30. till 4.30. tea 5 o'clock night march or something from 7. till 8.30 & sometimes as late as 9 o'clock so you see they kept us going, they used to cull a certain number from each company nearly every day so that kept us up to the scratch. We used to have some bonzer route marches at times, one of the best
was the one we had to La Perouse we all enjoyed our march to there it was a bonzer day, & we camped on a lovely green patch of grass over looking the ocean, we had our dinner there on the grass, & then we all went for a swim, & the water was bonzer we had several marches through the suburbs of Sydney, & the people used to turn out in thousands to see the boy's marching, during these marches we used to get plenty of chocolate cigarettes, fruit & etc. from the people in the street who were very good to us, but one fine day we had a big march through the streets of Sydney itself, I remember it well for it was a very hot day, & marching down the closely packed streets was worse than 100 in the shade.