PORRIDGE IN GALLIPOLI.
Lieutenant James B. Penman, of the machine gun section of the 15th King's Own Scottish Borderers (Dumfries and Galloway Territorials), son of Mr. A. C Penman, of the Qneensberry motor works Dumfries, in a letter home, gives a description of life at the Dardanelles under active service conditions. He says:—"l am feeling real comfortable just now, having had a good wash with a waterproof sheet and a bucket of water in a disused dug-out. We had a great delicacy yesterday in "C" Company's mess—a tin of syrup. Some of mv men had porridge this morning, bavins bought, borrowed, or stolen meal from some Australians. We try all sorts of experiments in the way of food here. Mv men had been making a porridge in their mess tins, the meal being oatmeal biscuits ground down in a tin lid with the head of an entrenching tool. Others make jam puddings with ordinary wheaten biscuiU broken down and boiled with water and jam. We bad boiled rice with jam, but no milk except condensed, which is too scire* for boiling as a- pudding^ . ~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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184PORRIDGE IN GALLIPOLI. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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