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[Page 54]

Egypt are already beginning to know what that means.

This climate is not a healthy one, and the troops are feeling it. Perhaps living in the desert, with the corresponding natural adjunct of a dust diet may have something to do with it, but a great many men also a little bit too much work in the way of training, but certainly the percentage placed hors-de-combat by such things as pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy etc is rather light.

However rumours are to the effect that next month will see us en route for somewhere, possibly France.

Field training is now advanced and is made up of Divisional training, in which the whole division is moved about to schedule times, or such things as bivouacs with sham fights at the end of them.

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