Item 03: Fred Harold Tomlins war diary, 4 September-18 December 1915 - Page 75

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8.11.15
Mon 8th
Claude Lambert has taken Burkes place as off sider for Tancred: This morning we had some Heliograph aligning; & were supposed to have 'phone instruction but it did not come off. We came on duty at 5 oclock; I tried my hand on apple pies today & had quite a treat for dinner & tea; yesterdays dinner consisted of rice and stewed apples & plum duff followed up with jelly so we are living high at present for soldiers: Last night one of our lads was at the beach & this morning was hauled up for comman during a bag containing 21 tins of milk, he said he was walking down the beach & kicked the bag & saw it contained milk, so he asked a lad who was standing by it if it was for sale, he replied that he

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