The early hours of this morning saw the conclusion of a rather successful "farewell party" to a popular figure in the squadron, Lieut. L.E.O. Lownds our Intelligence Officer. He was leaving to-day for CAIRO to proceed to the Union and to mark the occasion his famed "briefing–bell" which, with its penetrating clang used to summon the warriors of 21 to the Briefing Tent in great haste in days of yore, was tolled all over the camp after being removed from its customary stand. The action of the unknown bell-ringers, if appropriate, was not as popular as it might have been – due entirely to the fact that the idea occurred to them at 3.a.m. !!
We were visited by two War Correspondents, to-day - Mr. E. Williams (S.A. Press Association) and Mr. R. Keartland (Official Press Photographer). Having no aircraft and having been out of operations for some little while we had no "copy" for them, while the two war correspondents, having returned recently from the forward areas, had a lot of interest to tell us and found themselves being “interviewed" in the Adjutants'Office.