Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 176

• December 9, 2016 02:13:28 Sue Bryant

  It will be a bit better than
  

  the last.
  

  The first thing we did was to
  

  gather a great quantity of wood to
  

  make a fire & then we formed a
  

  small concert of our own. As
  

  midnight approached the fun grew
  

  more as as usual there was a
  

  vast quantity of whiskey & other things
  

  at last midnight arrived & we all
  

  joined hands & sang the old
  

  favourite auld Lang syne then of
  

  course we carried the concert on
  

  untill the sma' wee hours of the
  

  morning when we went to bed
  

  tired out & that was the finish
  

  of 1915.
  

  As this book is just about full
  

  I about think that it is any use
  

  starting on 1916 only to say that
  

  on January 2nd we had a  very
  

  large intercession service in the
  

  Maymyo Parish church. There was
  

  
  

• December 8, 2016 14:23:45 Jake Warren

  IT will be a bit better than
  

  the last.
  

  The first thing we did was to
  

  gather a great quantity of wood to
  

  make a sie & ilen we formed a
  

  small concert of our own. As
  

  midnight approached the fun grew
  

  more as as usual there was a
  

  vast quantity of whiskey & other things
  

  at last midnight arrived & we all
  

  joined hands & sang the old
  

  favourite auld lang syne then of
  

  course we carried the concert on
  

  untill the sun wee hours of the
  

  morning when we went to bed
  

  tired out & that was the finish
  

  of 1915.
  

  As this book is just about full
  

  I about think that it is any use
  

  starting on 1916 only to say that
  

  on January 2nd we had a  very
  

  large intercession service in the
  

  Maymyo Parish church. there was
  

  
  

  
  

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