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a thing I rarely miss as a rule.
Tuesday 28 Nov.
Very little doing, mostly cases of sickness coming through the majority being trench foot cases. Hundreds are daily sent through this being a serious source of wastage. Every endeavour is being made to find out the best preventative & every patient is interrogated to try & find out what he did in the way of looking after his feet. Rubbing with whale oil & the use of dry socks so far is the only thing any good. Had a nasty looking case in, the whole of the lower face having been shot away in addition to a fractured knee & yet he stood the dressing like a brick, one of the dinkum heros. Instead of turning in yesterday I went into Albert by car & tried to locate Morris. My usual luck again as he had just left that morning. Arrived back at 6 P.M. & went on duty again at 8.30 but managed to get a few hours sleep as things were very quiet. On arriving back found two splendid parcels