Item 01: H. E. Gissing diary, 13 December 1914-17 December 1915 - Page 127
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to keep us warm
Sunday 7th struck trouble this morning. I, with several others fell in on parade with the top button of our coats undone & we picked out & put on a fatigue as punishment. This consisted of filling in old latrines. The whole corp was however put on pitching new tents in place of the existing ones & there was plenty of work to do. I managed to get about 14 lbs of potatoes & a tin of gooseberry jam from a tent nearby. I could not tell whether they were left by the outgoing men or not but gave myself the benefit of the doubt & took them. In the afternoon I went across to my friend at No2 to get some films being developed for me also to get some backsheesh goods It was a most successful trip & I brought back a bottle of wine, 8 candles, tea sugar, tin of milk & a plate, coming back I waded across the lagoon but the surface of the water had a film of Grease on it with the result that I received a good coating of grease on my legs & I had to walk home & wash it off before I could get dressed again.Monday 8th More tent pitching in the morning. In the afternoon