We are having a nice time out here, but it is a bit warm about 12 o’clock, and we do three parades a day. Out here there is plenty to see and do, the (natives) are different,…
…It is rather refreshing to read about the snow you have had, a little of that would be a welcome change out here, while, as you say. We have not any use for fires at present. We have had…
21st January, 1915 unnamed In ‘A’ Company’s bungalow there are placards up, ‘A Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year to Bromley people to Bromley people and the Mayor.’ They have a ‘safety-curtain’ to their stage divided into the usual…
15th January, 1915 Our Own Correspondent: Sergeant R C Fawsitt On Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock we were towed into the Alexandra Dock, Bombay, and were soon moored alongside, and things soon after began to get busy, and the cranes…
Just a line to say we left Southampton on Thursday, October 29th, about 11 p.m., and did not get far from the quay before we were in the mud, and tugs were trying all night to get us off. Eventually…
9th October, 1914 Cyril Thatcher On the Chatham in the Mediterranean Fleet “I received a letter from you a couple of days ago, dated August 2nd. I expect things were getting a little exciting there. They are gradually pushing…
The 1/ 4th and 1/ 5th (Territorial) Battalions of the (Queen’s Own) Royal West Kent Regiment were intended for service in Britain and were not required to take up service abroad (until Conscription in 1916) unless they volunteered for foreign…
