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possibly have seen the camp but must have gone on bearings given her by the Taubes (German aeroplanes resembling doves in their flight) which come over occasionally. A flock of 5 of them came over the morning after the raid to see what damage they had done, and I have noticed since that the German version of that night's raids mentions having bombed this depot, but does not claim to have done any damage. The Coastal districts of Kent (England) were bombed about an hour and a half after she left us - in fact England had raids on four nights running. They are nasty things and can do a lot of damage, though the sooner we find a means of getting rid of them the better - our present methods are futile. We have been in darkness ever since the raid as it is more than likely she will be back again and perhaps with a better aim this time.
Anzac Day was celebrated here by a review of all the Australian troops in the district. A hollow square was formed whilst a short service for the Gallipoli dead was held by the Chaplain General of England, after which we marched past the saluting base, our troops marching like Guardsmen. It was the biggest review I had ever seen, and the general turnout was very favourably commented upon by all the British Officers present. One of the brightest features of the day consisted of about 50 Australian nurses who assembled near the saluting base and got greatly excited as we went by. Poor things, they had been over here a month and we were the first Australians they had seen. They were doing duty in some British Hospital pending the arrival of their own and this was the first day they had been outside the Hospital grounds. A convent is nothing to a British Hospital in their opinion. One of them had been very fortunate, and of her the others were very jealous - she had been one day with the housekeeper to a neighbouring farm to buy the butter. We picked them all up in an