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the bed. Oh, darling.
My new Jewish Com & C.Q.M.S. are really doing
excellently. C Sen Carny at least looks exactly
like a sergeant major, but he has an awful lot to
learn - & I am glad to say that he realises that too,
& is coming along very well. CQMS Labitseh does
not look like a soldier at all - more like a girl
dressed up, complete with moustache - but he is extremely
able & efficient - & I am really very fortunate with
both of them.
There are priceless stories about my officers, but they
are too much for me on paper. I really think
that Dickman is mad - & Carsenty is incredibly
idle & full of bluff, but is improving a little.
Levoutin is now posted to me, on my request;
he is a good boy, but has much to learn.
Kalk is really doing excellently, & I now like him
very much. When he was first commissioned he
was a big disappointment, & seemed to get the
idea from somewhere that as he was now
an officer, he could do as he pleased. He had
a rather a lot of rockets plain speaking
from me, & a number of extra orderly
officer duties, & 36 hours confined in his
tent, for bloody impudence - & he showed
his spirit & is now very good indeed & a great
help to me.
Thursday Feb 19th Now darling, I must attend to some of
the questions which you asked in your last three