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... looking after and keeping in order such a rough undisciplined lot of men was a capital breaking - in for a youngster ; but my great anxiety was the possibility of having my little bag of sove- reigns , the advance pay of the men ...
... looking after and keeping in order such a rough undisciplined lot of men was a capital breaking - in for a youngster ; but my great anxiety was the possibility of having my little bag of sove- reigns , the advance pay of the men ...
Side 20
... looking boy , more like fourteen or fifteen than seventeen , every one considered it a duty to make me comfort- able ; and when on a march out through the snow to the Baidar Valley or to a field - day with the whole division out on the ...
... looking boy , more like fourteen or fifteen than seventeen , every one considered it a duty to make me comfort- able ; and when on a march out through the snow to the Baidar Valley or to a field - day with the whole division out on the ...
Side 21
... looking straight up at us , was peculiar . Fortunately the Russians did not think us worth wasting ammunition on , and we were able to make a long inspection of the place . Our good friends the enemy were not always so forbearing . When ...
... looking straight up at us , was peculiar . Fortunately the Russians did not think us worth wasting ammunition on , and we were able to make a long inspection of the place . Our good friends the enemy were not always so forbearing . When ...
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... looking after his men , that it brought on what was a fatal heart complaint he got home on leave , where he was informed he had not probably more than six months to live , so he at once decided to return to the Crimea to die , if ...
... looking after his men , that it brought on what was a fatal heart complaint he got home on leave , where he was informed he had not probably more than six months to live , so he at once decided to return to the Crimea to die , if ...
Side 27
... looking forward to a campaign in Asia Minor , when , to our utter disgust , it was announced that the French had had enough of it and peace was to be arranged . Soldiering in those Crimean days was a much more simple matter for the ...
... looking forward to a campaign in Asia Minor , when , to our utter disgust , it was announced that the French had had enough of it and peace was to be arranged . Soldiering in those Crimean days was a much more simple matter for the ...
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