Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 59
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[Page 59]
I went to the country village of Norley one day, and saw all the people that knew my father, and all my 42nd cousins, it is a comparatively modern looking village compared to Fovant and such places. I wandered around many of the lanes, where I suppose my fathers before me had wandered.
Cheshire is flat and not very interesting. War is teaching the English children geography as it was never taught before. I was wandering in the country near Crewe, when some children ran up a sidelane towards me, one said its a Canadian, the other said an Australian as he got close, there I told you so", At Northwich a few miles away salt is got and the gas known as Chlorine is made.
I saw a letter from a Melbourne girl to her grandmother at Norley. In it she said, "her boy", was coming across in the A.I.F. And Grandma she said, he is awfully fond of fruit cake Spud pie is what that young man will get, with the skins smashed up in them. Fruit cake, "ye Gods", I bought an apple on Waterloo station for 4D, Californian honey at 2/- a pound and eggs 4D each.