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January 1916
9th to 19th We have had an exceedingly busy time reorganising & getting ready for active service again. I was orderly sergeant for the 2nd week in camp & the parade states proved a perfect nuisance. Being strange to most of the men, it took me a few days & the transfers of men in & out of the squadron was abnormal. It was hard to know who was in & who was out, but at the end of the week we got things sorted out & now we are getting along quite smoothly.
Most of the deficiencies in equipment have been made up. A good deal of our saddlery had disappeared during our absence at Anzac. The niggers about the camp, I think, are responsible for a good deal of the shortage. We have been doing 2 mounted parades a day squadron drill & regimental & one route march to Helouan which went off very well. I am still riding the same horse I have had all along. He