p.

4.

& it all came back on the men.

What do you think of that? The more I think of it
the more furious I feel. The bloody little twirp - I'll
give him blasted rockets. I have put in 12 months
slogging with this Coy to make it into quite a
good one & that half baked lunatic apparently thinks
he can come along & undo all that in a few
weeks. Bloody impudence!

Anyway, I have put it all onto Col L now, with a
strong recommendation that I be advised to Court
Martial the man.

And I have a Court Martial coming up on three of
my soldiers - they were duty guarding a crashed
Wellington bomber & instead of guarding it, they pinched
some valuable parts of it & tried to get them out
of camp for a sale. It was lucky we caught them.
The case is complicated because each one of them
is evidence against the other two, & a man cannot
be forced to give evidence about another man if
it tends to incriminate himself. But I had to
take down about 25 pages of written summary of
evidence & now it has all gone uop to the H.Q.
Legal Dept for sorting out.

So you see, my dearie, there are always extra things
coming along to complicate life & make it more
difficult & tedious.

I had quite a pleasant evening last Monday. On Sunday
there had been a tea party, given by the Jewish Welfare
Committee, & the first of the series, for the Jewish