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Updated: May 19, 2025
'Average lives' used to be quoted for all cases, ranging from a few weeks for a platoon officer to the duration for R.T.O's and quartermaster-sergeants! Old soldiers may never die, but I think our new soldiers 'faded away, not the old, who grew fat and crafty! The Battalion marched away from Pioneer Huts whither it had returned after its rest at Hedauville on January 15.
The Pioneers lining out for their match in six-a-side football against the Shoemakers and Tailors, the Stores piled high with 'hay-packs' and wicker baskets filled with unissued signalling equipment, Sergeant Birt quietly demanding last month's war-diary, Connell the arch-footballer, Kettle, the Sergeant-Cook, arguing about an oven, and the four Company Quartermaster-Sergeants whose vote was always unanimous to proceed further would be to enumerate a list of people and things over whom it is my regret to pass so rapidly.
Folding benches and tables, matting and bivouac poles, frying pans and canvas buckets, books and tobacco, a watch and even a real live horse were discovered all the things which stand for wealth among such a primitive tribe as we then were. It is rumoured that hot and blasphemous Australian Quartermaster-Sergeants rode back that evening to retrieve some of their property.
Murray's organisation was excellent, and the four Company Quartermaster-Sergeants Holder, Freudemacher, Taylor, and Beechey and the Company Cooks earned equal credit in the performance of these important duties, which never miscarried. The Battalion was fortunate in keeping as its Transport officer 'Bob' Abraham. He suited the job, and the job him.
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