Collingwood (2011)
“Six days after the 1915 VFL Grand Final, just as he and his best mate, Doc Seddon, were being readied to ship out to Egypt, Doc was suddenly transferred out of the 29th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force. While Doc’s move to the 5th Field Company Engineers was made official on 24 September, it would have been requested some weeks earlier—perhaps around the time of Percy and Louie’s wedding. Doc, an experienced driver who also had some knowledge of vehicle maintenance and repair, c...ertainly had skills that were in great demand by the engineering corps, whose job it was to build bridges and roads so that supplies could reach the troops, maintain trenches and bunkers, and also, if necessary, devise ways to destroy enemy structures. But while transfer protocols were usually rigid in the Australian armed forces during World War I, wherever possible mates were, like brothers, kept together for the good of morale. Doc’s relocation to the engineers would not have been forced upon him.MoreLess
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