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[Page 56]
August 1916
change into light clothes. Breakfast was good porridge & ham bread & coffee after days on 3 biscuits & bully a day together with what we could pick up of the rations Jacko left behind. Beer was also on hand again so we thought we were in a garden of roses. We hear we are going to get a spell.
Cholera has broken out in the Division & we are in quarantine. One lot of men got away on leave, but no more are to go. I have received several letters during the week & wrote many myself. We are having a fairly easy time Last Thursday we went to Mahemadia for a swim in the briny. The horses enjoyed it as well as ourselves. Many of us got sunburnt & the bandolier & rifle slung now is very painful On Friday I was over at Divisional H'Qrs with a party of 25 men pitching tents. We did a solid days work & it was very hot. Flies are getting worse. During the very hot weather they don't give very much trouble, but now it is cooling off they come again. On Saturday I went over