“Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.”

The usual reaction of a footsoldier observing such incidents is well summed up by the comments of Private Derrick in the Salient at Tobruk: ‘Seen a human side of the war yesterday arvo Red Cross partys [sic] burying dead & treating wounded one of our partys were fired on by enemy & I will always remember it’.⁵⁰

‘We'll fly you out at seven this arvo—but bring them down a little early, just in case we need to think of something else.’

“Yeah, he only works on a Saturday arvo,” Kelly told her. “I think the place is packed on that day, because girls come from everywhere just to get a glimpse of him. He's hot as.”

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