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which govern this battalion.
28th Feb 1915. It is well to sample every side of a soldiers life, consq consequently a fortnight or so in hospital, is perhaps not an unmixed curse, certainly it is something of a rest. To corrupt Gilbert it might well be said
Taking one consideration with another
A Sergeants life is not a happy one.
Certainly it is that we act as an everlasting buffer between the Officers and the men. No matter how nonsensical an order is, and with due respect, more than one have been well on this side, even to the limited intelligence of an N.C.O., yet ours is the job to see that it is done, and except amongst ourselves, ours is not even the privilege of growling.
If it is not done to the letter, ours is the blame, and if it is done, the men curse us, and