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Despite the rain the fatigue party are hard at it. Wilkins has discovered a tank and has had it rolled up to the old well, which is the cause of our selecting the ground, no water no life; he intends using it as a darkroom and we threaten using it as a target. The cook is grudgingly acquiescing in the building of a new cook house, though he would much sooner use one established in 1915 by Jacko across the gully & submit to the Asiatic flea bug & louse & carry water & grub about a hundred yards than get into something new and efficient – hence the war.
I am longing for a bright day to begin work and if this rainy period lasts I shall perforce to a series of the flora in water colour & shoot as many of the fauna as possible.
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In case you want to cable through Australia House to me before I reach Egypt (we shall get there about the end of March leaving here about end of 2nd week in March – address Capt. Lambert A.I.F. War Records Section C/o 28th Division Chanak. Messages & letters come over with the rations.