Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 19
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[Page 19]
Then food comes in for condemnation- "Blanky dog's meat chucked to you as if you was pigs". The whole thing is rotten - the corporals and lieutenants are a lot of blanky rotten mugs." The growler invariably forgets to think he is a rotten ass himself, which is true." True you want to mind & not run a splinter in your mouth, when eating the turnips and even if the cabbage is underdone a little one cannot have everything perfect, when one joins the army. Though there is room for improvement and there is also a waste of bread.
Now it is Anzac rifle range a very important step in our career as soldiers, for here we practise musketry. Firstly we have one weeks instruction in trigger pressing, judgeing distances, etc. And then we go to Anzac range, about 2 miles from Liverpool, where some very good scores are put up by many of the men. After a week or a little over here, we go to Greenhills where there are running land moving figures to fire at. This finishes our musketry and we ready to sail.