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job until he comes back. When Jack did return,
Kiley was very last to leave, and he dreaded going
back to the Depot, & seems to be rather attached
to the Corp & to me by now. So I put up a
case that he should stay, & this he is being
allowed to do, until Jan 2nd. C.Q.M.S. Hemmings
left today, en route to the O.C.T. I was
sorry to see him go, as I got on very well
with him. And so Col Fich is now C.Q.M.S., which
is quite funny in many ways - he is so unlike
one, with his girlish figure & ways, & wavy black
hair, a R. Colman's moustache, & lovely white teeth.
(Solomon calls him "Petunia") But he is 100% [efficient underlined]
& he will certainly do very well indeed.
Jack went into Hospital today, to have his teeth
out & his [ ?] scraped etc & will be away
about two weeks & so poor Kiley is all alone
with 6 Jewish sgts; I shall have to have him
across to my room, for a beer, from time to time.
I have had to switch round my orderly room staff
again too - Golun having, in spite of being, a M.A.
was about the dullest witted clerk imaginable & I
eventually could not bear it any longer. So I
pushed him out, am trying that chap Pessah,
about whom I have written to you. At the moment,
he is equal in rank, L/cpl, but inferior in
knowledge, to Spitz. The little Spitz is really