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so you see it was pretty short notice I made a rapid pack up, & said good-bye to as many of my friends as I could & that night young Golledge drove me to Walcha Road where I caught the train, & so away. at Danglemah Mr. & Mrs Mitchell got in, I well remember the ride down in the train the night was very frosty & cold & in spite of rugs & footwarmers I nearly perished, we arrived in Sydney on a Sunday morning, & I went & took a room for the night, I did not go out on the Sunday night, for I was pretty tired. & very sleepy
The following morning found me making my way to Victoria Barrack's & after some sparring about & a lot of questioning, I was taken into a room, & given some papers to fill
in, there were about 30 questions we had to answer on this paper, & by the time you had finished filling them in, what they did not know about you, wasn't worth knowing provided you spoke the truth.
after this was over we had to line up with our papers in hand & wait our turn, to see the Colonel, the chaps all spoke of him as being an old tiger & so we were all more or less afraid when our turn came, however he must have been in a particularly good humour this morning, for he when he had a look at my papers he only put a few short sharp questions to me, & marked my paper's as accepted as we came out from this ordeal we were formed into different squads & marched off some to Kensington &