Item 15: Archie Barwick diary, 1 October-14 December 1918 - Page 35
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There are quite a lot of "Jacks" mixed up among the crowd & the mongrels have taken all their shiny badges & buttons off & are putting up their Battn. colors in the hope of camoflaging themselves but its no use for everyone knows them & they are in for a nice time. They ought to pitch them overboard to the sharks that's about all they are any good for & the Staff at Horsferry Rd. are very little better.
The Orderly Officer & I had a few words this morning over the Mess Orderlies parade but nothing came of it.
Went & had a look over one of the old forts that was built many years ago to protect Devonport from an invasion. It's a long while since I saw such massive stone work & burrowing & tunneling all over the place, the whole show is surrounded by a big moat many feet deep & the entrance has a draw-bridge, the whole thing is of course obselete now & is used for a gas school by the Tommies.