Item 02: Joseph George Burgess war diary, 20 February 1915-1 January 1916 - Page 151

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I should not after all save my appetite for dinner for great things were to happen yesterday as Smithy, "Rosie" & I with some freinds were invited by one of Smith's freinds to go out to the Simla in the harbour & have dinner with them. I wondered how I would get on for funds 3/6 being all I had but thought I would take the risk & any way in this "Rosie" proved a real darling. Five of us started off down to the wharf with big ideas of rowing a boat accross. (We had all just seen the old Doc who as I said obligingly had put us on Ordinary, but would have had a fit I am afraid had he known what we had in the wind). We got to the wharf & could not get a boat