Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 157
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[Page 157]
There's a sing song on the Destroyers to-night but I'm not going - The majority of our mess are not going - A sing song was got up & it seems to have been taken for granted that we wd all fall in line & foot the liquor bill - However at breakfast I voiced a general feeling of the mess that we wanted more information as to (a) uniform to be worn (b) guests (c) expense - As to uniform or eveg dress either wd do - As to guests – I had wanted to ask 2 doctor men & their wives so as to return my aft teas - It turned out that we couldn't ask our friends - Expense wd run to 20- 25/ per head - Naturally when the officers found they had to pay for other men's friends (female mostly) all save 2 declined to join - I declined simply because I couldn't ask my guests otherwise I shd have been vy glad - The money don't matter so long as I discharged bountifully my little social obligations - This will sound fanny to you – perhaps not – because here as elsewhere certain people always try to run the show but the officers