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[Page 74]
Union Jacks, French & Belgian predominate.
To day we packed all our gear and now are ready for the start.
10th April 1915 (Saturday). Tomorrow night has now definitely been fixed for our removal, and as usual our beloved (?) head is celebrating the occasion by keeping us to the last minute drilling. The men need to rest but still it is the endless round of parades, 7 to 7.45, 9.30 to 10.30 & 2.30 to 4.30 pm, and this in spite of the fact that the medical authorities have recommended that the men be rested between 11 and 3. It would probably be a surprise for the Colonel & major both if they knew what the men thought of them. But still here we are, in a broiling vertical sun in clothes intended for the Antarctic, drilling away as if we were new recruits, instead of men on the brink of a big campaign & badly in need of a day to write letters, wash their clothes & rest. It recalls how the colonel on the brink of departure from Liverpool refused the men leave