Item 01: John Duncan McRae diary, 5 October-11 December 1917 - Page 91

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[Page 91]

At 2.30 P.M. we filed off the ship & marched in column of route to the Town Hall, a distance of 2½ miles & were there dismissed. Alan & I wandered through the city ,bought our Post-cards & addressed them from the Soldiers Institute; we then had tea in one of the finest restaurants I have ever been in or seen. Strawberries & cream, toast & coffee, eggs & bacon & more coffee & meat rolls were a few of the articles which did the disappearing trick.
We visited the Y.M.C.A. which was thrown open to soldiers, we had a round trip in the tram, which is free to soldiers, visited Wesley Hall, where free feeds & free concerts never end & from which the badge I am sending out, came .Later we had more tram & then marched

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