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he canteen, was being closed before 7.30am, just as one of the newly arrived men from Melbourne, a giant of a man, wanted to pass. Some comrades who stood nearby claim to have heard 2 guardsmen, Lehmann and Mackay, who both have overstepped their boundaries on various occasions, shout to each other: “That is the right man, now close” and then seen them try to trap the man. But the man pushed the soldiers to the side and, by doing so, happened to land his fist in the face of the sergeant who had rushed up to
help. With the help of 5-6 soldiers who had also approached in the meantime, the man was wrestled down and shackled and shipped off to Berrima that same morning. The
Melbourne man was of course in the wrong as far as his punching went, but otherwise the
incident was clearly a provocation by the Pommies. The news hadn’t quite made the rounds through the camp yet when another incidence occurred. Roll-call as always had been at 8am, and now we were marching through the gate towards the aisles to collect our food when the same two Pommies plucked two men from our 9th company and marched them off, allegedly because they had stepped