Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 103

• December 6, 2016 15:53:03 Jake Warren

  & then drop again. This you keep repeating untill

  within the last hundred yards. Then you rush

  as fast as possible & shout like a lot of

  Mad men untill of corse you have captured

  the Trench or Trenches. When we had finished

  this every man was just about done and

  completly bathed in sweat & as usual not

  sorry to get back to Camp which we reached

  about 1-30 then of course during the afternoon

  we had our usual bath after which we were

  new men again. Tea as usual 4-30 Listened to

  the band for an hour & then to our Virtuous

  couch.

   

  Wed Mar 17 1915

   

  To Day I think we had one of the Dirtyest

  & Rottenest jobs that ever I had tackled &

  that was we had to dig trenches supposing

  to fortifie the camp. Well the place which

  was chosen for C Company was close beside

  a stream & looked fine to look at but when

  we had taken the top crust off it was just

  like a swamp underneath. We we up to our

• November 28, 2016 21:55:25 Sue Bryant

  & then drop again. This you keep repeating untill

  within the last hundred yards. Then you rush

  as fast as possible & should like a lot of

  Mad men untill of corse you have captured

  the Trench or Trenches. When we had finished

  this every man was just about done and

  completed bathed in sweat & as usual not

  sorry to get back to Camp which we reached

  about 1-30 then of course during the afternoon

  we had our usual bath after which we were

  new men again. Tea as usual 4-30 Listened to

  the band for an hour & then to our Virtuous

  couch.

   

  Wed Mar 17 1915

   

  To Day I think we had one of the Dirtyest

  & Rottenest jobs that ever I had tackled &

  that was we had to dig trenches surrounding

  to fortify the camp. Well the place which

  was chosen for C Company was close beside

  a stream & looked fine to look at but when

  we had taken the top crust off it was just

  like a swamp underneath. We we up to our

  
  

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