Item 02: Benjamin Alfred Cohen diary, 10 May-17 September 1917 - Page 132
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Sergeant & as I told our 1st Warrant Officer who through out a suggestion that I should control the Chinese Sanitary Men on my own & release a Sapper who all along had the handling off. I told the 1st W.O. that I could not manage the two positions at once & he said that he had 15 waiting for my position. I told him there & then to put one in my place as I was as just as pleased to go out Driving again, with the result that on Sunday 25th Sept I was releived of my position by a Sergeant who held a First Aid Certificate & I took up my old duties next day. During Sunday my Chum the Bootmaker & I proposed to build a Hut for ourselves as soon as possible, so as I was not booked up on the Road until Monday night during the morning of the 26th I went about the bush looking for some material to build with. I came across several old Huts which had not been occupied for some time built