He went on to say this "At this very time Matcham I do not know what is going to happen to you but you are to join C: company now till after the Amalgamation they will give you work to do till then."
After the Amalgamation you are to be send back To Canterbury to do your basic army training and rejoin the regiment as a pte."
"But sir I sighed up to be in the band not a soldier I do not want to be one it is a band or nothing"
I said that wrong to him.
"YOU will do what you are told Matcham not what you want to do."
March him out cpl and take him over to C company."
