OUR GREY HOME GOING WEST.
The following impression in verse of life aboard a. troopship we publish, with. acknowledgments .to . “ihe Alaunmiiniian,” me unofficial journal of that-portion of the sth Reinforcements quartered aboard-the troopship Afaunganui, for which it was evidently feelingly written by " Hospital Orderly”:— ,„ , , ~ AY hen reveille goes half an hour layt? And the need of my midnight wavcu 1 return my bed with a terrible head, For I never was weary betore.
Then the privates go down to then(And moss is the right word. J guess), . . ~ AVhere there’s no Irish stew, and the ten’s rotten, too, In our rolling grey home, gom„ West-, .
We’ve salt water to wash in, none else, ~, Go to lather sea soap we try yet,, And the canteen stocks nought; cigarettes can’t be bought, Alfiftho measles are all we can get.
But there are no small brass buttons to clean, . T And. we’re sick-it fatigue s oil—l moan, . , So this statement I dare; There s nought can compare . AVit.li our floating grey home going West.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3998, 3 August 1915, Page 3
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171OUR GREY HOME GOING WEST. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3998, 3 August 1915, Page 3
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