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<p class="page" id="a5658026">[Page 26]</p><p>Today is Empire Day the 24th May. We had a half holiday. We were up again this morning at 4.30 am and had a route march of about 7 miles before breakfast. Our Lieutenants left us to-day to go else-where, They were very decent chaps, Lieut Tofler & Lieut Schofield by name, two of our Sergeants went with them, as orderlies They resigned their positions to go with them, 7000 English Tommies landed at Port Said last Mon, (22 May) It was bombed again on Monday also but no aeroplanes went up after the Taube, it did no damage, bar killing a few niggers and they don't count. We are the next Party detailed to go away. We were on fatigue yesterday, Sitting down was about all we did. We are more climatised now, in fact I haven't sweat since the day we lobbed here, lobbed is an Australian word meaning, got, Lob means get, I am back again with almost the same men in my tent as I was at Coota, five Scotchmen, Three come from Wyalong. Wyalong is well represented here in our Brigade (14th Training) considering the size of the place, some Queenslanders lobbed here just a few minutes ago from Port Said. Today is the 8th of June, I haven't made any notes as things have been going on in the same weary, dreary military way.</p>