Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 171

• December 8, 2016 23:17:24 Sue Bryant

  Dec. 24 1915
  

  I am now making a big jump & will

  start on our Christmas festivities, we finished

  parades by 12 o clock & spent the afternoon

  in Decorating one of the Bungalows for our

  Christmas dinner Breakfast etc. One

  party of men made a journey into the

  Jungle with choppers & collected a large

  quantity of evergreens Bushes Etc.

  with these & a quantity of flags we

  managed to make the room quite

  pretty & artistic. For the table as

  one could not get any table clothes

  we each took a sheet of our beds

  & these had to ask for that purpose.

  of course after tea we spent the rest of

  the night, of course there was the

  usual amount of drunk but

  these are always permitable at

  christmas time, we all had of

  course had to stay up untill
  

  
  

• December 8, 2016 12:58:07 Jake Warren

  Dec. 24 1915
  

  I am now making a big jump & will
  

  start on our Christmas festivities, we finished
  

  parades by 12 o clock & spent the afternoon
  

  in decorating one of the Bungalows for our
  

  Christmas dinner Breakfast etc. One
  

  party of men made a journey into the
  

  jungle with choppers & collected a large
  

  quantity of evergreens Bushes Etc.
  

  with these & a quantity of flags we
  

  managed to make the room quite
  

  praty & artistic. For the table as
  

  one could not get any table clothes
  

  we each took a sheet of our beds
  

  & these had to ask for that purpose.
  

  of course after tea we spent the rest of
  

  the night, of course there was the
  

  usual amount of turmoil but
  

  these are always permitable at
  

  christmas time, we all had of
  

  course had to stay up untill
  

  
  

  
  

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