a next morning. asked the cook for a hot drink & got it & at this request I tried to get for him mine & Berts & rum ration, Charlie Adams was the cook. he gave me a cup & I asked the O/c for it, the O/c knew (or thought he knew) Bert was at [?]Hala & sent for him, Bert went back on me & then Hank & I went to it. Yours truly won out & Hank owes me a drink at the Fort Garry Hotel as a result. To bed at 9.30. PM. Three letters from my queen. my tired feeling & all I had been up against were forgotten as I enjoyed my mail. How I long & yearn for that dear girl, read my letters again after I am in bed feel very tired & clean played out, made to dress & go up to parade by that b- fool of a Graham ready for the line, all I do is say [?]to the sergeant & then go back to bed. 10.30 PM. Will Healey & the rest of the fellows left behind at the Brickfields are brought up & sent into
