Otherwise
“There I learned that the entire First Canadian Division had been moved, with the greatest secrecy, to Scotland.
Witley depot was itself in ferment. It was clear to all that at long last the balloon was going up.
I was given charge of a draft of reinforcements just arrived from Canada and ordered to rejoin the regiment.
I hardly recognized my old outfit, now billeted in the town of Darvel in Lowland Scotland. Many of the officers I had known were gone – culled out as medically or otherwise unfit.... There were many other changes. The unit had been lavishly re-equipped with brand-new Jeeps, trucks, and armoured carriers, and issued new types of weapons, some of which I had only heard about before.
A feistiness infected everyone from the C.O. down. The ambience was so powerful I hardly cared when I was told I had been replaced as I.O. by an English captain seconded to us from the British Intelligence Corps. I was not even greatly perturbed to find Lord Hyphen back in his old ringmaster’s role, wielding his whip with renewed enthusiasm.MoreLess
Witley depot was itself in ferment. It was clear to all that at long last the balloon was going up.
I was given charge of a draft of reinforcements just arrived from Canada and ordered to rejoin the regiment.
I hardly recognized my old outfit, now billeted in the town of Darvel in Lowland Scotland. Many of the officers I had known were gone – culled out as medically or otherwise unfit.... There were many other changes. The unit had been lavishly re-equipped with brand-new Jeeps, trucks, and armoured carriers, and issued new types of weapons, some of which I had only heard about before.
A feistiness infected everyone from the C.O. down. The ambience was so powerful I hardly cared when I was told I had been replaced as I.O. by an English captain seconded to us from the British Intelligence Corps. I was not even greatly perturbed to find Lord Hyphen back in his old ringmaster’s role, wielding his whip with renewed enthusiasm.MoreLess
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