Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 236
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The doctor is a most effeminate looking individual, wearing a frizzled white goatskin collar over his green uniform.
We spent a not too respectable but joyous time in the town & we sailed home in the evening – I linked arm-in-arm to do the red-cockaded posten who called me "brother" and sang loudly songs of Vaterland and freedom. I responded with the Hamburger "Holdrio, is geht nach Heimat", which was quite appropriate. My red-cockaded "brother" begged me to throw my cap-badge into the gutter, or at any rate to remove the Crown – the "badge of servitude!" I didn't.
Mon. 18th.
My birthday. Amused ourselves by snow-balling in the heavy snow. Photos in the football field.
Tue. 19th
Farewell concert by the old stagers.
"The Price" a dramatic trifle from one of le Quesne's works.
Rooney was excellent as the "heroine"; looked very distingue but his teeth quite spoiled him. I was dresser & "maker-up", "doing" Aird for his "Harry Lauder" turn, Limb for sentimental tenor songs & the cockney duo for ragtime.