Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 119

You are here

Transcription

[Page 116]

116
rum. He tried to explain all about it in smiling broken English. The "boys" wanted to give them some souvenirs. He smilingly refused. The last I saw of hi was being taken away under an escort of 2 armed soldiers.

From this place we eventually settled down for a time in "Switch trench" which was better as a residential resort that when previously occupied by us. The water however was very deep in parts. There was a trench pump provided but as it sucked up mud and water at the same time it wasn't of much use to us.

One of the joys of life was to receive mail from our people. This, in addition to

This page has its status set to Completed and is no longer transcribable.