Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 79
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in the great jig-saw puzzle of arrangement designed by the higher command. That higher command generally plans with a pompous imbecility and vanity that disregards whatever it should dovetail into and adjust its own important self wisely and agreeably with. This is well known to all active service men who have not had the privilege of becoming tethered with red tape or of being consumed with the jealousies of the war office. However delay and ambiguity of purpose being recognised as the normal state of affairs military, away from the battle area, these virtues are taken as signs of health in the vast organization of the army; and even the rank and file accept them as such. Subconsciously the troops standing in the shed adopt this attitude while they wait.
There is a stir ahead where other troops are being allotted