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until they took it & how he kept back their pay in Egypt until they paraded before the brigadier for it, how at Rosehill & Liverpool the men weren't even allowed a Sunday afternoon off, but even the sermon was cut short to allow extra battalion drill before dinner. Luckily the men are a good lot, but judging by the remarks being now passed around me, their colonel & major are absolutely despised. Well may we be called Bill Burrages circus. Everyday here our operations remind me of :–
"The king of France went up the hill
With twenty thousand men
An when they reached the top,
He marched them down again.
12th Apr 1915. 1 a m in the morning. At last we are in the train waiting patiently for it to move. The day has been one of bustle, the packing & stowing of bags, overhauling equipment, rolling blankets & downing tents, and we are off. The Light Horse are very sore but our chaps are in great heart, and for the first time I heard