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The operations on the night of November 1-2 were conducted by Major-General Hare, commanding the 54th Division, to which General Leggatt's 156th Infantry Brigade was temporarily attached. The latter brigade was given the important task of capturing Umbrella Hill and El Arish Redoubt.
Leggatt's care for your interests 'ad extended to sheathing the car in matting and gunny-bags to preserve her paint-work. She was all swathed up like an I-talian baby. 'He is careful about his paint-work, I said. 'For a man with no Service experience I should say he was fair homicidal on the subject.
Omitting the fact it was dark and cloudy, our brigadier-uncle lay somewhere in the South Downs with his brigade, which was manoeuvrin' at Whitsum manoeuvres on a large scale Red Army versus Blue, et cetera; an' all we 'ad to go by was those flapping bicycle-maps and your Mr. Leggatt's groans. 'I was thinking what the Downs mean after dark, said Leggatt angrily.
I've never known his ethergram installations out of order yet. "Go and guard your blessed road," he says to the Fratton Orphan Asylum standing at attention all round him, and, when they was removed "Pyecroft," he says, still sotte voce, "what in Hong-Kong are you doing with this dun-coloured sampan?" 'It was your Mr. Leggatt's paint-protective matting which caught his eye.
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