I am in the best of health and am getting plenty of food. We get bacon
for breakfast, corned-beef stew for dinner, cheese and jam for tea and
supper, plenty of tea and sugar, and at four o’clock every morning
a half-quartern of rum, so you see they look after us all right:
_Lance-Corpl. Feeley, 1st Dorsetshire Regiment_.
“Have You a Light?”
We keep a fire or candle going all day and night specially for lighting
“fags” and pipes. If on the move we keep a lantern on the go, so if you
could send me a good substantial pipe-lighter (I don’t care how much it
costs) it will be the best turn you have ever done to the army, and I
shall be in great demand: _Sergt. Horwell, Royal Artillery_.
Don’t Know!
It’s fighting and marching every day. There was a majority of us that
thought it would be over by this time, but I am afraid that it will
last a lot longer than what one thought. We get no news here at all,
and we don’t even know where we are stationed; they won’t tell us
anything: _Pte. E. Lawrence, Bedfordshire Regiment_.