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Where we are now billeted is the biggest & most up to date farm that I have seen since leaving Australia things are done on a large scale & there is every possible convenience, they say the place belongs to Hennessy of 3 star brandy fame
8th. The Coy were out on a march this morning & just before we fell in it started to rain, so I shouted out to Capt Somerset & asked him whether the men were going to wear their water sheets or not, he said yes, so I got my men out with them, & in bandolier fashion, that is round or should I say over their shoulder, when Parkinson came out he reckoned they should have had them in their haversacks, this narked me so I said pretty heatedly well ever since I have been in this Battn. we have carried our sheets bandolier fashion & damned if I was going to give an