Friday 8th October 1915: Writing home on 5th October Sapper Allan Parrott of 2nd/1st Field Company, Royal Engineers in Gallipoli says: “We have had two issues of golden syrup just lately and my mate got hold of some sugar and made about three quarters of a pound of treacle toffee and it went down well”.
“Our section is doing good work out here and we have been complimented once or twice by our Brigadier. We have heard about the big advance in France(1) and hope they are still going ahead”.
“You can put fags in my letters as they will get here more quickly than the parcels, and fags are scarce. The weather out here is but so bad, but the flies. Well! I think we shall have to catch some and make a fly pudding. How would the following go down for Sunday’s dinner? Get two Army biscuits and smash to a powder, two onions, finely chopped, and one rasher of bacon left from breakfast also chopped up. Mix to a stiff paste with water and boil for an hour. The effects are one sleepless night with “awful feeling below the belt””.
Source: Bedfordshire Times 29th October 1915
(1) The Battle of Loos
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