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infernal row.''474

He left Australia on the Orsova and arrived in Egypt in December after what he described
as a ''glorious trip''. Also travelling on the Orsova was the captain of the group, Andrew Barton
''Banjo'' Paterson, in charge of what were described as a ''round-up of squatters, stockmen, shearers,
station hands, farmers, drovers, circus riders and jockeys plus a bank johnnie or two with a leaning
to polo to give tone to the unit''.475 Clifford Oakes often spoke of his acquaintance with Paterson.

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Clifford Leigh Oakes, 1915.

474 Letters from Clifford Oakes to his family, 1915-1916.
475 Roderick, Colin, Banjo Paterson, Poet by Accident, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1993, p.207.

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