“I'm sorry, Lorraine. I know you'll want to go with us when we head out with the relief convoy tomorrow. Beamy said he's looking forward to seeing you.”
To the soldiers of Third Army he said, “Boys, we have a lot of work to do. Firstly we're making this our new home base. I like it here and apparently so does everyone else.” There were smiles all round at that news. “We have security to run, patrols to organise and we have Birdsville and the prisoners to sort out. Major Lewis will arrange who goes where. As for the prisoners, we'll keep them in Birdsville until we know what to do with them. In the meantime we patrol and strengthen our position here and the approaches to Birdsville.”
Before he could continue, Andy coughed. Sundown looked and then remembered his conversation with Major Lew
