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Each Sunday all belongings have to be moved from the barracks so that they can be thoroughly cleaned. All our furniture and everything else then lie about in the alleys between the barracks from 9-11am, so that the whole camp looks like a junk yard. Blankets are being shaken out and aired and searched for bugs, which thankfully have not been manifest so far.
2/8/1915. Lately there’s been quite some commotion again in the camp. Major Sands left for Melbourne on 24th of July, and Capt. Griffith, under whose rule there always seems to be some strife, took charge of the camp. It seems he either does not have enough say over the Pommies to stop them from taking liberties, or he and his underlings deliberately set out to undermine the Major’s authority and use his absence for encroachments, because maybe he wants to become commander himself.
After the strike it had been agreed to open the canteen from 7-7.30am. On Monday morning on the 26th of July, the gate to the mustering area which one has to cross to get to