Miss Beauchamp's Account of the Salonika Fire

• March 14, 2018 12:17:32 Jessica Adkins

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  managed to drink 2 or 3 cups  of t before they cam page fold  

  with fresh tea & eggs & bacon! What a breakfast!

  Nothing was ever so good as that tea, and after a bit

  they began to realize our plight & went off to get beds

  ready, while we sat in the sun, past caring what

  happened next. Then the Colonel found us - such a

  dear, with a twinkle, & lots of intuition - & he soon

  saw to it that we got to bed - & bless his heart he went

  off and brought two soft khaki linen handkerchiefs

  drenched in delicious scent, that, after ones own

  smoky, black little wipe, wast the last word in bliss

  just then. Richardson slept the sleep of the just and 

  I lay and revelled in that cool pocket hanky.

  Someone brought us some lunch later on,  bulky  beef I 

  think but it was food for the gods, and lemonade, 

  nectar if ever there was any. After that we got 

  up & had tea with the matron, & a car turned up

  with a lot of our belongings, & the Colonel took us

  into his jolly little mud hut, & then a Bosch aero-

  -plane came over & was fired at, & then we went

  for a stroll with the Colonel & he sang Albert Chevalier

  songs, & really I think he saved the situation for both of us!

  Next day Richardson went off to the motors she had

  come down to register etc. I was put up for another night

  in the Hospital, still separated from all my belongings so that I

  had to camp on in the old grimy clothes of the fire, but the

  Colonel planned a delightful afternoon & took a huge

  
  

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