Dance in Officers’ Mess
J■. ' ' ■ '.’’here was a military thoroughness *?here was a military thoroughness out the organisation of the dance d in the mess of the C.D.S.L at L sntham Military Camp on March ‘ and at which the officers enterbed about fifty women friends. The Jeers were perfect hosts and seemed have thought of everything, from ■ing a bus to take their guests from ? city to Trentham, to a buffet supr which the most fastidious hostess ght well have been proud to prole. There was an excellent dance nd, and huge log fires burner mery in both the rooms. When the bus t for home, crowded with its load fair passengers in their pretty icks and cloaks, the officers crowdround singing “Goodnight, Sweetart,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” and ler popular songs; a farewell which owed the girls, perhaps more than ything, that their hosts had enjoyed sir company as much as they had joyed theirs. Colonel A. S. Wilder d Colonel J. Hargest were present the dance, which had been organd by Lieutenant G. Colledge.
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 16, 29 March 1940, Page 7
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176Dance in Officers’ Mess Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 16, 29 March 1940, Page 7
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