p.

8.

managed to get him a job escorting prisoners
of war, to Durham. It is a 6-8 week round
trip there & back & he gets 10 days leave there.
What a piece of luck for him, he was so delighted.
I was very pleased to be able to fix it for him,
as he is a good husband & father, & has not been
doing any mucking about up here.

Thornton & Biblings were duly Court Martialled
on Monday - found guilty of course although I do
not know this officially - severely reprimanded. It really
is ridiculous, such a waste of everybody's time & so
bloody gutless & weak on the part of the president
in particular, the members too. I have a hell of
a lot I could say about it which I had better
not put down here. But when I know officially &
the sentence is confliced. I intend to give
"Higher Authority" the benefit of my views, in a
letter - or shall we say, a memorandum!
Anyway, I managed to get rid of Thornton on
Wednesday, by means of palming him off onto Col.
Leicester at P.R.T.D. - he was a bit browned off
about it, but agreed that I could not do with the
bloody youth hanging about on my hands. Biblings
I have to hang onto - but I have confined him
strictly to barracks, just to make things unpleasant
for him.

By the way darling, you will probably understand
anyway - but just to make quite sure - my