I get up at 5 a.m. and parade the men of my transport section at
5.45. Then at 6 o'clock they water, groom and feed the horses.
Breakfast at 7, then get ready for the day's work. On Friday we were
out on the road from 8 till 2 p.m. (fourteen miles), and after that
we have to bring the regimental rations from the station to
headquarters, and then distribute them to the various schools where
the different companies are billeted... Everyone must be in at 9.30
p.m., when the roll is called. Discipline is being more rigidly
observed than at camp, but everybody is quite cheerful under it.
But before much time had passed an important decision had to be made,
and two letters to his Mother will show the spirit in which
Lieutenant Lusk made it:--