Item 01: R. T. Vowles diary, 22 August 1915-23 February 1916 - Page 81
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[Page 81]
counted out amid peals of laughter. Consequence more fatigue scrubbing the floors twice a day. His head is too big for his hat, but when he loses his stripes & he probably will he will find his correct depth (deep down below). Roast & boiled pork for dinner – sounds nice but, oh snakes ! It is like lumps of fat swimming in boiling oil & is past my standard of eating & that has been sinking slowly & surely until I eat almost anything. The fat & oil used to cook our meals is amazing. Everything is dripping with grease & one gets a taste in one's moth that will even let dry bread slide over. Three cooks have the cooking of the meals for 750 men, a rather big contract, but for eighty officers & non coms combined there are twelve cooks . It appears that some of our jam finds its way into the sergeant's mess to serve them with morning & afternoon tea