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- [Centre:] VII
[Upper right annotation:] 13
Most of Kitchners army is exceedingly well
equipped & trained, so it's only natural that
a good deal is to be expected of us after 12 months
training. I cant tell you how fed up we are
and how demoralizing this ceasless irksome
routine is & to be kept here still training
when men are so badly needed to end the war.
Two or 3 months concentrated train<sup>in</sup>g would have
been enough for we 3 chaps <del>[illegible]</del> <sup>& we</sup> would
have been just as far ahead as we are now.
I would'nt mind half so much if I could be
doing something <del>worth</del> where a little bit of
intelligence is needed or where I might learn
something that if not useful for the war, would
help at some other time - some thing that would
excuse the brain a bit, - carpentry, engineering
or anything that might have have the least bit of
interest in it, even officer work (much as I'm not
struck on it) And we have to give up our whole
time to this Training - one years sheer waste of
time, & the end not yet in sight! For the rumours
about going away in a few days seem to be
without foundation.
All the colonial element & most of the others in
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