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in the ranks & so forfeiting a Commission as praise-worthy. I wish to tell you, he said, that I think no less of you for it.

The Major told me that I can consider my Commission a certainty. For myself, – to say the least, – I am sanguine, but am not advertising it.

I suppose that you were supprised to get my cablegram. Well, I was told by Captn. Lath, at Alexandria, that Bill Head who was in the same Coy., had been killed at the landing. After writing a letter of condolence to his people, through Elsie Lone, I found out that it was a mistake, so thought to anticipate the mistake my letter would convey – hence my cable-gram.

I am going to send you the names of the men in my present platoon. They are a fine lot of chaps, and I do hope that if I get a platoon, I shall have them I can tell you that I shook things up with them: I found them rather slack, but now, they have a showing of what you could call "Discipline".

It was a task, but I managed it, after having a Sergt. reduced to Lance Corporal, a Corporal to private and another Lce. Corporal was reduced on his own application. Its purely a waste of time trying to discipline men

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