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In consideration of last nights piquet all the men who were with me have been given the morning off parade. It is a glorious & sunny morning quite a pleasure to be out in the air.
18th [Oct] Rained steadily during the night but the morning broke nice & sunny & it remained good all day.
This morning General Birdwood & staff inspected the Battalion & the usual "polish" was thrown at us, old "Birdie" said that we all knew what terrible sufferings & hardships the Australians had gone through & all this sort of thing & how nobly & gloriously they had fought never failing in anything they had been asked to do & he finished up by saying, & now boys I know what you have done before you can do again, there's only one more "ridge" to take & we must have a hand in that, this one more ridge is getting a trifle monotonous there has been this one "ridge" ever since we started fighting & it still seems to be there, but still the lads are