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signalling purpose. This turns out a failure owing to the unsuitable material. After tea I am called up with the rest as a probable reinforcement for the signal troop that is to leave for action in a few days. My only opinion is that if I go, I go, but in all probabilities it will turn out in smoke.
22/2/16 Take over horse "Dolly" & receive full equipment. Hop & Eric left in "Details". By all appearances then, the troop may move off soon now.
23/2/16 Pay day at last & we are richer by far than he others. Feel very queer however & decide to go on Sick Parade even though it looks very bad, considering the fact that I am supposed to leave for the front. Anyhow feel too bad. Report at the Bungalow & find that I must go to bed immediately. Tell no end of lies to the doctor to avoid it, but the thermometer showed 102° & that settled it. Go to bed in No 3 ward with Influenza. In the ward is Macdonald a horse dealer who was hit behind the ear with a cricket ball & knocked silly. Also Considine with 17 boils on his neck, the latter being called "Sore – neck", He had been
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[Transcribed by Rex Minter and Betty Smith for the State Library of New South Wales]