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[Page 57]
wanting to get a word with him first on the telephone.
Saunders – J.B's (W.B.C.) nephew is in the A.S.C. that do for us, & one of my chaps Macdonald Lt at the wagon line told me he was asking about me & I have sent along for him to come to dinner. I have had several guests from a little way back amp; am afraid have not done some of them too well as just at the close of twilight when pipes are going sometimes Fritz sometimes [h]as light the sky up with flashes & bangs & they can see themselves involved in a young Verdun even when it is two or three miles down the line. One night I had two Doctors up – one fellow who came over with us from Alex to Mar[seilles?] - & I heard after that they arrived back with very awestruck reports. We chuckled like anything.
Sydneian sent me a copy & ever so many coves come in & say "By jove a Sydneian" – makes you old when you realise you were there 7 or 8 years before.
[Sydney Grammar School old boys]
Young Strath is Lloyd's adjutant and a Captain nowadays. I hear too that Jack has got his crown but don't know where he is. It is a bit tough that Rosenthal made a Capt. who was left back with the embryo 4th Div. Arty. in Egypt – straight into a Lt. Col. when there were 4 majors here – myself the junior Miles the senior - senior to him. We have all growled – except Miles apparently who it seems preferred to be Brigade Major! & I think there will be a stir up. Hang it all a cove wants promotion in his turn unless there is a very good reason why a junior should go over & in this case absolutely none.
28/6/16
Postponed till today. I can still catch the mail by sending a cyclist into the town about 2 miles away. Gen. Hobbs came round again this morning. All our new pits & telephone switches working & he reckons I got a model Battery – so it is & they haven't just got pussy gun pits but can shoot. I had another note from Dolly O'D, she said Gerty H was just tearing away to catch the boat as her mother was seriously ill. I hope it does not prove so serious.