Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 63
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their drill in a very earnest fashion. They were in earnest in all that they did. One morning their training consisted of climbing a big fence and dropping over the other side. There was an Imperial officer whence I will remember as being always most courteous and encouraging to us.
I had my haircut here. The operation was very painful. The barber had a pair of clippers from which some of the teeth were missing and when he would run it over my head he would miss clipping some hair which would in turn catch in the clippers and the tug! I don't think the barber could manage it on his own, another man had to come and finish it.
There was a "YM" tent quite close to the camp. Here we would have meetings, recreations &c, not forgetting the writing. It was always possible