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have had biscuits which are a good deal harder than dry biscuits. Ken has been dining in the Corporals mess so has had pretty good grub lately, he still has his stripes but I pulled mine down a couple of weeks ago as it was not benefiting me much at the time & I was getting tired of carring [carrying ?] one & drilling & training as a private, the next I get will be dinkum ones which you get at the front. No pay is given at all for stripes here unless they get the permenant rank at the front & if we succeed in getting into the 17th Batt. which we are trying hard to do we aught to soon get some. Bob who has been stationed here for a while has been moved again to another place about 20 miles away. We had a bit of hard luck as we only saw him once for a

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