This was in 1951, you can see the hat still had a 'regimental' shape andthere is a slight roll of fat around the waist. The ground was harder tohack into then as well, my muscles were still mere human flesh. Manypits,trenches and foxholes later changed all that though. We were toughand strong enough to hold a bull out for a pee.

What did irk us was, whenon 'rest', we would be called on to dig for BHQ and at the'bugout' positions in the rear. Got right up our collective noses that did.