We would not have won prizes at fire lighting

TCD MS 10853 folio 84 recto

TCD MS 10853 folio 84 recto

[1915]

Our position in Front of Hill 60

Quite a little nook which we made very cosy. It was a grand trench very dry and very safe. Hill 60 was facing us only a hundred yards away. We had good rations and we cooked all we wanted in a little brazier. I must say neither Ben nor I would have won prizes at fire lighting and we often had to trespass other fellows fires for our meals. We obtained water when our bottles were empty, at the sap-head where the mine commenced, which was intended to blow up the hill, and we used to take a stone rum bottle holding about a gallon and get it filled by the engineers there. it was very