Taylor war diary, 16 January 1916-22 July 1919 / Tom Taylor - Page 29
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to a compartment.
All along the line wherever we stopped we were looked after by the ladies of the town & Cakes, Tea, & Cigarettes, & fruit were very plentiful. The card below is one that was given to each of us by the Mayoress of Exeter where we were going through & with it was a meal fit for a King.
[Photograph of G. M. Lyons with the following caption.]
Owing to the card being misplaced I am filling this space with my pal G.M. Lyons.
There is no getting away from the fact that the women of England took the place of our own mothers & girls 13000 miles away & looked after us as if they had known us all their lives & I defy anybody to say otherwise.
It was about 9 pm. when we ran into the small station of Aylsbury on Salisbury Plains & were told this was the end of our Journey by train.
It did not take us long to fall in & very soon we were swinging