Item 03: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 1917-February 1919 - Page 36

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learnt the art of making potato pie. As one can imagine this was quite an improvement on the stew.

It may be interesting to know that certain men were appointed from the Battalion to mend boots. Also we had a post-corporal whose duty it was to deliver the mail and the Parcels to us. There was the Butcher – in fact we were quite a community in ourselves.

Then the Battalion always had a chaplain who went by the name of "Padre" – to the "Father". As a rule we only had the Official Church Parade on fortunate occasions extra services were held the attend

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