What a Man Can Put Up With.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1915, Page 2

What a Man Can Put Up With.

A member of the First Canterbury Regiment in a letter received by his parents, says that the dirty of the men after the fight on the Canal was to unload Turkish arms, etc., collected on the field. "I .secured a Turkish belt with

a badge on it ' , ' ] le goes on to say, "iuul some got bayonets ami oven rifles. If there was any way ol getting thorn home I would have got them also, but'they would only be i in the way just now, as I believe we have to discard all in our kit that is un necessary. We think it is not possible for the war to last another six months, and you can-feet your life I am coming home straight aTter, even if it is only to get a bath, and to sleep between cold sheets. 1 think I will Tjo wanting to rise out of bed iaboiit 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning «r perhaps go to bed with bricks tied on me, because I am so used to sleeping in my equipment with ammunition all over me. It is funny what' a man can put up with and take no notice of. For eleven .days on the Canal I slept with all my clothes on—boots, putties, and everything, equipment and ammunition and had my i;ifle with Tjayonef Ixed in my blanket, loaded alongside me, and yt>t I always woke up quite fresh, ready for what might come. Of course fii daylight, if there was nothing doing, we would take our clothes off. "We have been permitted to wear short trousers here, now. The ©airo people think we are all footballers. . The New Zealanders have a jolly good time here, and it hae hung to them.