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Rev.Dr.J.Fraser - Diary May/June 1917.
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J.M.Mayne (GS) 2nd Lt. Letter of 9.12.14. "Practically nothing doing ... the Infantry sit in their trenches their fires and spend their time improving their trenches or occasional pot shooting at the Germans ... The shelling of aeroplanes is the only thing that gives ue any excitement".
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J.R.Bellerby (GS) P25.
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J.Cockcroft (GS) Letters 25.8.17 "A good book is the best antidote to boredom out here".
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P.H.Rawson (GS) Many refs in letters.
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O.Lyle (GS) Letter, p2 re billet life "getting fedder up and still more fed up every day". Also p9, "The life - alternate trench and billets - is most frightfully boring, you can't imagine how fed up we all got".
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F.J.Stenson (RN/MN) Diaries - several refs e.g. 28.6.15.
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J.Pearce (GS) Diary April 7 19th 1918. Bored with routine and "empty hours" behind the front line.
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R.Ross Douglas (Gallipoli) Diary 14.4.15 (p12) No books, no money etc. "Oh for life and freedom once more".
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H.H.Hammick (Gallipoli) Letter 3.10.15 "Life is very boring indeed as one can take no exercise and must remain somewhere near the Trench in case of need". Reads and re-reads Shakespeare.
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D.J.B.Wilson (GS) Memoirs, p.30, 27.5.18. Quiet periods in the trenches led to boredom and consequent arguments and quarrels.
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C.Mead (GS) Letter 19.7.15. "Not the slightest chance of seeing any sort of womankind ... of playing cricket, tennis etc. No dances or theatres at the moment. I've rather got the pip".
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