A CRIMEAN WAR CHRISTMAS.
* * * Our soldiers and sailors under any circumstances seem to manage to celebrate Christmas in some shape or form. A newspaper of the- Crimean War period says: “Thanks to general muddle, the Crimean Christinas of 1854 was anything but what 1 it ought to and might have been; and the knowledge that plenty of good things had been provided by thoughtful hearts at home, but which were anywhere but where they were wanted, did not add to the merriment of our poor overworked, underfed army. The following Christmas was doubly enjoyable by comparison. The stubborn fortress of Sebastopol had fallen at last to its more stubborn assailants; habit had deprived frost and snow of their terrors, and every hut ran over with hams, preserves, vegetables, and mysterious tins, till it resembled a grocer’s store.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)
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137A CRIMEAN WAR CHRISTMAS. Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)
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