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Tuesday, April 16, 1918

Bad weather, Classes as usual. Made a score of 4 on range. MacArthur turns up at last Have a gabfest contest around the stove in the Barracks. All R.F.C. pilots assembled at H'dqutrs at 8 A.M. Capt. Walch speak to us on the subject of lack of discipline and ungentlemanly behavior here at Issoudun We deserve it as all of us came here with the wrong spirit and [[?]] which would interfere with us learning

Got my film & prints to-day Wrote Mrs Darlington enclosing a picture of myself taken at Romsey. 


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Wednesday, April 17, 1918

Spiral class as weather is O.K. Late to class so I am put on the ground for the morning by Casey Jones. Went to the traps range and shot 50 rounds Score 0 & 3.

Spent the whole afternoon on spirals [[strikethrough]] Make my 13th before I am passed out [[/strikethrough]] Not passed out and must try it in the morning. Cracked wing and broken tail skid added to my record of casualties

I feel pretty discouraged as Norton Elliot Vasconcells Schmidt & MacElvain etc have passed on to Cross Country

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