We were kept on the go for a week, day and night, with hardly a wink of
sleep. What we did get was just lying down and dozing off, sometimes
in the road, and sometimes in a ditch. We raided a convoy. Bacon,
biscuits, sugar, and jam all came to us. The wagons were simply packed
up. I think we had about 150 lb. of bacon between four of us. We
marched all that night, and in the morning we collected a few sticks
and started to make tea and fry a few rashers, when they opened fire on
us, and 15 lb. of scrap iron interrupted our meal: _Gunner J. Talboys,
Royal Field Artillery_.