Item 01: Clifford M. Geddes diary, 31 March-1 August 1918 - Page 7
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Calais has some awful smells in the streets. Then our hearts brightened at the sight of some well proportioned fine looking Belgian nurses at a Belgian hospital. On we went, & at last arrived at the Overflow Camp & flopped down in the sand about 1.30. An officer said we'd be shown our tents as soon as some Tommies had vacated them, & that they would get dinner, which would be ready about 4 p.m. As several have had no breakfast, they must be famished. I ate a tin of sardines now, am glad I brought some tucker with me. The tents & sand everywhere put me in mind of Egypt. There are crowd of troops here, just for a day or so on their way from the ship up to the line. Scotties, Lincolns, Kings own, Inniskillings, Australians, & all together; the 5 of us actually struck a tent on our own again. Dinner was a scramble, instead of the hot dinner we thought we'd get, it was bully beef, bread & jam & tea, but nice white bread & sweet tea, both better than I