Item 01: R. T. Vowles diary, 22 August 1915-23 February 1916 - Page 84
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medicine & took his bottle to get theirs in . He certainly looks bad, & is as irritable as a teething child. Driven to desperation we have been forced to rob the cookhouse & now when all is quiet we pinch up & get a mug of dripping. It is pretty poor stuff after it has had several days meals fried & boiled in it but with plenty of pepper & salt it is not too bad. To anyone really hungry anything is acceptable & we can honestley say that we are ready to eat anything.
29/1/16 Just been inoculated with 250, 000, 000 baccili against enteric fever. First a touch of iodine on the arm & then about an inch of needle & a syringe. The baccili then run around your arm like lunatics until it gets tired & you feel too lazy to lift it. Marvellous. Next time we get 500, 000, 000 baccili. We shall be eaten alive by this army of grubs. Snakes ! a man will be alive when the dingbats start on him too. All the lads have been growing or trying