Item 04: M.C. Evans war diary, 4 November 1916-16 June 1917 - Page 172
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must have been whole meal or something for it went as hard as bricks & tasted like a biscuit, however we voted it a good change. After eating it I felt horribly sick but the other chap seemed all right so of course I didn't say anything. It may not have been the pastry anyway.
Yesterday we had a great meal. a tiny round of roast beef with roast potatoes & boiled cabbage, a rice pudding as a sweet & then a dessert of two apricots I had bought that afternoon off a little village kid for a pinch of tobacco. Breakfast is a good meal too. Usually porridge, bacon, fried bread & chips. Lunch is usually of the cold variety bread & jam etc. We get one of the [Arabic word] to get us tea.
I tell you Avilion is not a bad home.
The other night I woke up to find the candle alight & my co mate & brother in exile doing fearful execution with the cribbage board. He told me next