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 some effect on 'Jacko'. Near by is Lionel Macnamara applying himself to the same task with absorbing assiduity. What a startling revealer of character this forward area is! You get surprises both ways. Some bold talkers in Egypt are now seen quite wobbley while others we thought 'blobs' while training are displaying a nerve & resource which make one marvel. It is as a Day of Judgement – you quickly learn to know men "on the underneath" & already on this first afternoon of fight one was vowing you would be friends with some of the chaps for life.

Early this afternoon a deserter in a Tommies cap crept along the communication trench aforementioned crying "Greek Greek" Major Bourne led him blindfolded down to our Brigade Hqrs. He looked a piteous object of bewilderment & it seemed true that he was a Greek who had been living in Constantinople & pressed into service.

Later the enemy threw over to our trench