January 18, 1917
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Left the boat about 7 a.m. and marched to the Rest Camp again being told off to our stables again and given 3 tickets for 3 meals. The meals turned out to be a lump of bread and butter with sardines and we had to stand in a queue for hours to get even that. I was feeling rather doleful but sent off a couple of letters and then tried to fill in time walking round the camp and generally found myself humming sad tunes. A rotten day altogether, cold and rainy. At 7 p.m. they gave us 3 blankets each and I was glad to turn in for the night after a meal of bread and butter. Saw a couple of airships flying round, used I believe for looking for submarines in the Channel.