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ready for the morning, there was not much sleep I can tell you that night, at reveille, everyone rose at once & dressed, & got ready to move when like a bombshell we got an order from Hqr's to carry on with the training, you should have seen our faces we were thoroughly disappointed, & did not care how things went, we all thought then that we would never get away, but would be kept in Australia till the end of the war, I forgot to mention that some time previous to this we had a set of brass instruments presented to our band by the French residents of Sydney, they also gave a fine Australian flag to the 2nd Battalion, & another day we had a big review, & a march past
the Governor General of Australia who afterwards inspected us. Shortly after this the situation began to develop. Some of our chaps were sent down to the troopship to paint the numbers on our hammocks & mess tables etc etc., with that new our hopes rose again, & we went to work with a will.
We were inoculated several times at Kenso for various diseases, the second inoculation for typhoid was a pretty severe one, I know I had a mighty sore & swollen arm while some of the chaps were sent to hospital it affected them so much, I believe in inoculation & vaccination, & my experience so far in the Army has proved the worth & wisdom of it.