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try and purloin something even army his cuts from the cookhouse. We bought French bread for this hut otherwise French foodstuffs were almost prohibitive in price. Butter was 6/- a lb, meat 2/- to 3/-, biscuits, when obtainable, about
3/-, sugar unobtainable without tickets and sweets non-existant. Bread was rationed and we were not supposed to be able to buy it.

At the headquarters there were many messes and I belonged to the Clerks and Corporals Mess. It was run on proper mess lines in a hired room of a house. We paid our own cook and mess waiter who were drawn as volunteers from the battalions &

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