Item 03: Joseph George Burgess war diary, 1 January 1916-4 February 1917 - Page 107
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[Page 107]
26 April, 1916
Romania [Romani]
We had the usual stand to at 4.30 this morning, but I was up a 2.0 on picquet & feel a bit dozy on it. We have watered the horses & are having a bit of a blow, there is only tibbin for our neddies & not too much but some one is going away for grain. We had a laugh at too chaps coming in off out post this morning, they had two bints with them €“ All niggers are detained at the camp €“ After being on fatigue cleaning up the tents that the Tommies vacated I had some dinner then Joe Wood & I went down & had a wash at the wells by throwing buckets of water over one another €“ The water is not nice to drink but better than nothing. Jack [Francis] Cheater our Q.M.S. has been out foraging & came in with a load of tinned stuff €“ evidently these Tommy Officers lived high. Some of the boys found a god lot of whisky, not I however.