Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 107

• November 29, 2016 01:26:39 Sue Bryant

  Get from a wagon Meat Potatoes Cabbage

  & water from his water Bottle.  We then made

  fires & Boiled the water & put in the Meat we

  pealed the potatoes & cut up  the cabbage this we

  put into the boiling water. Each Man of course cooking

  his own in his Billy can we then said Boil

  Yer Devil, Boil”  We let it boil until we

  thought it enough then we sat down on the

  ground & eat it & It was not half bad

  for a first attempt after this we again

  marched back to Camp not sorry that Friday

  was over & each looking forward to Sunday

  when we would again start for Maymyo.

   

  Sat Mar 20 1915

   

  To day we were not to have a very hard

  day as were have to be ready to move away

  the First Thing on Sunday morning. We had

  about 4 hours of the usual drill & then

  had the rest of the day to ourselves

  until 5-o-clock when we had to strike all

  tents & pack them ready for Sunday morning.

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