Item 01: Charles Monaghan diary, 1916 - Page 156

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[Page 156]

1916 May 23
Tuesday

Another inspection parade at 9.30 a.m. address by camp commandant on "Playing the Game" Washing parade in
fore noon.
Route march to Etaples & back 6 miles. Etaples a dirty hole, fishing village, inhabitants poor, common & ugly. Squalid & filthy streets stink.
Stroll round after tea. meet & yarn[indecipherable] to Gog Aldous Alexander, Piper & Elliot. The latter to be boarded for medically unfit.

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