THE MYSTERY OF X LIST

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 13, 26 March 1944, Page 1

THE MYSTERY OF X LIST

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FRCK time to time we

hear the question: ’’What, the hell is this X feist V

We thought the mystery nee ded clearing up, so we called on Sgt. Cliff Foster, our Orderly Room Clerk for an explanation.He was rather nervous and wanted to know whether our reporter was a gossip writer of" a Gonophone News. Hawk. On being assured that the Orderly Room would not appear, in the phone News, Sgt. Foster gave us the lowdown. ::: ; “ The X List", he said /was in principle a . .method of procedto simplify work in Records. All men who were not on Unit strength were on an X List. Take Bob Williscroft, for instance, who is now in hospital. ON being discharged from hospital Bob would, theoretically go on. to X 4 list. But while in hospital is on what is known as X 2 List which includes all men who are hospitalised. Discharge from hospital places a man on X 4 List; from this list all reinforcements are drawn. Bob, for examph le, i&bght go to an infantry Unit.

another Engineering Unit, or A.S.C, , or any ether Unit in. need of,-quali-fied men. :::: XJ list consists of all personnel undergoing refre she courses in Detention Barracks ? De set ters, and P.O.W’s. X 5 List, include a all personnel who arc on c curse* of over .14 days. X 6 List ( which will A not interest us) is the. list on, . which all personnel going to IT.Z. - 1 •on leave. compassionate/ets, or f urloughrr: rr'rnTßU are sub-1 is ts; such as X4a List/ which is for personnel whithout previous affiliations

in N.Z.E.F.I.P. ,An X4c List;.mado -up of Grade 2 men po.stod for Base dut\io sin He ca 1 .Arsa -Thero. arc. -.other . Lists, .but they do not concern us. The main ; thing,.. .. : a ” concluded . Sgt. Foster, ” . is to . remember that. a . man on aM X .List is -no' longer a member of his Unit and that he .will not ■ necessarily. be reposed to his Unit on discharge f rpm hos~. pi 1. :::: With that we folded 1

. up cur* notebook and -enquired hoy/ Sgt. Poster’s chest was improving. ” Still -pretty, soreafter the /|g| extra fort. I put in to be ready to help the class put fap the Boilers • •••• some people .den* appreciate J what the effort meant to us he sadly said. Wg offered our sympathy ; . - after all a chest is a chest • "Iw \ « 1 . - ■ ,? : >v ; II « II it nII it II (I 11 t; n H tr . . r '