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<p class="page" id="a5658030">[Page 30]</p><p>Today is the 23rd of June. Out of the past 9 days I have had 5 days and nights guard and 4 days at the shooting ranges. <strike>On</strike> On the 15th I was made acting sergeant and on the 16th I resigned and got [indecipherable] to the ranks on my own initiative. We have had a new sergeant from the battalion here and he had been acing sergeant major and he is a pig. I don't know why but he has had a set on me, and sooner then be a sergeant under him I resigned, also because the stripes were "backsheesh" as the Egyptians say, which is Arabic for, "unpaid for. I haven't received a farthing for my stripes <strike>so</strike> are am not in the habit of working for nothing Stripes even at 10/6 a day aren't worth holding. Every Reinforcement N.C.O. as soon as he <strike>s joined</strike> joins up with his battalion is put in the ranks so I and a few others have left instead of getting the sack as it were, Now that I am a private again the Ac/S/M has been pumping guard into me, The other half of the Coota boys who we were</p>