March 18, 1918
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Splendid weather. Had a busy and hard day This was the day we were celebrating our 2nd anniversary on, and great trouble had been taken a week past to make it a success. My particular job was to carry out the decorations and arrange the lighting and stage, but I still had to carry on my job outside. I had made a trip into Bailleul and purchased fancy paper, Chinese lanterns, and hired a number of flags, also purchased some mimosa, the counterpart of our wattle, but grown in the south of France.
All day we worked and it really looked well. The tables were laid out the full length of the mess hut, while covers and the cutlery, which we borrowed all being new, looked splendid. At 6 o’clock the dinner started about 250 sitting down, patients doing all the waiting. Amongst the visitors was Colonel Manifold D.D.M.S., Colonel Downie, A.D.M.S., Lt.Col. Kenneth Smith of the 15th and various other heads, officers and all sitting down together. The dinner itself was also a success being about 8 courses, the menus being written in Flemish.
After the speeches the curtain went up and our Concert Party put on a very good show which finished the evening about 9.45. It was a most successful spread, nothing to mar the proceedings the whole evening.The patients did very well as there was a lot of stuff left over which was handed over to them to deal with. I was dead tired when I turned in.