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the time he is tired & cold & hungry & it is
hardship without romance, expecially
when it is raining & he's wet through.
The next day there was more marching & more
fighting & somtimes orders were misunderstood
& a general mix-up occured such as a neighbour
battalion (or ours) going in the wrong <del>directiong</del>
direction & getting in from of our fire with
the result that we or they would be unable to
fire on the enemy because we would be shooting
our own men, & then there would come racing
along a brigadier-general or staff major mounted
<del>on</del> always on fine spirited horses, irritably
balling-out the officer who made the mistake
tho not always hitting on the one really to blame.
Most mistakes happen by night when
battalion Commanders sometimes take up
wrong postions thro misreading their maps or
mistaking roads or other features in the dark,
and so it often happens that in our march
we come to a sudden halt & stand in the
road for a couple of hours, & not being given
orders to fall out & sit on the side of the road we
have to stand there not knowing why or for how
long & being damp with perspiration from the
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