27th March 1915

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Another easy day. Issued with new clothing. I stayed back & envied the battalion marching out (at 2 o/c PM) to the bands tune of Tipperary; They are to return tomorrow at noon. Church parade is to be held out on the desert. 9PM. I sit here (an invalid) in my tent eating oranges & nuts stretched on my bunk won- dering for how long I am to be separated from civil life & how I will manage to break into its peculiar ways again

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Informal portrait of Privates Eggington and Sanderson, 6th Battalion, outside their tent at Mena camp. 79 Pte Henry Tunstall Eggington was later promoted to Lieutenant; he was invalided back to Australia on 24 November 1916. 134 Pte Frederick John Sanderson was later promoted to Second Lieutenant; he was killed in action on 4 May 1917.

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