Letters written by Charles Patrick Flanagan, Royal Flying Corps, item 6

• November 20, 2018 18:45:36 Meghan Bowyer

  walls are built with sand-bags. The roof which is about 6 ft high consists of several sheets of corrugated iron and is supported by two old railway tracks which rest on two opposite walls. For my bed I have three wooden planks, fixed up along one wall, about three feet from the ground. My companion has a similar contraption along the opposite wall. AT the back of the dug-out and between the two bed we have a easy little fire. On this fire fire I make cocoa three or four times a day. I have already broken in on my second quarter lb. We also buy butter and make toast for tea and supper The other night I invited H. Dennage and three other fellows to supper. The supper was a cold one of roast chicken and they all voted it was the best feed they had since they left England. The only draw-back to this dug-out of mine is that it is a long way from the water supply, but we have two petrol cans and

  
  

  
  

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