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It is very pitiful to hear some of the tales
of the chaps here. They’d make you cry,
fellows limping on a stick come
in with toothache malinger here
for weeks & weeks & make out their
lame, perhaps never been to the
front nor intend to go. I watched
O’Hara Wood playing tennis on
these courts today. He has been
wounded. A big crowd going
away from here booked for
Australia, today. Today I start
work in this place as a ward clerk
to give myself something to do,
If i continue this lazy life
doing nothing & worrying about
everything & not receiving
any mail from Home I
feel that in a very short time I’’ll
be insane, so I volunteer for this
job. Little or nothing to save keep the
ward book & check the roll every
night with ward Sgt. Caught
a bonza cold. Wind becoming a
gale all day long. Nose won’t
stop bleeding. Things are not to good.
