Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 159
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[Page 159]
The Barman George Badcock from Junee was dressed up in a white apron and handled things as if he had been on the game all his life. After the sing-song we cleared away the things and had a dance only without girls worse luck.
Considering, things went off very well except for Eddie Boyce wanting to fight the crowd and Jimmy Caher falling half way down the stairs but we got them to bed and things quietened down. I think this was one of the funniest Christmas nights I ever spent and one Im not likely to see again.
Next Morning every one was up as usual and our Christmas feed was nearly forgotten. As I said before our billet was one long room and as the weather was bitterly cold we used to have two braziers going all day and half the night. The only thing we