Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 167
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[Page 167]
Mon. 8th Apl. (cont.)
After the scanty lunch we usually go back to our hut and eat whatever may be obtained from the canteen. We have formed a mess of eight, including, the Major, assorted R.F.C. vets. of from 18 to 22 or so, one Australian flying-chap & self.
We club together and buy whatever we can. At exorbitant prices we secured a little dried fruit today & with this and our allowance of bread we made a pie in a wash-basin, cooking it in the French kitchen.
We all looked helplessly at the pie-to-be and it was generally conceded that I, an Australian, should know how to cook.
And how was I to tell them that I was a city-Aussie? – England knows not that such a breed exists!
Finally the Major did the mixing while I "crumbed" the bread & biscuits. It was a howling success.