Grandad's War: A Coldstream Guards Frontline Experiences During WWII by A C Reynolds

Author:A C Reynolds [Reynolds, A C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amanda C Reynolds
Published: 2016-03-16T23:00:00+00:00

While we were there, it was obviously deserted and every morning our Artillery Spotters would go up into the steeple, each morning there was an SP Gun (self-propelled), would open out and bang a couple of shells at the church like. So anyway we were in position and we could smell this here lovely smell of cooking pork, we went to see where this lovely smell was coming from, and old Horace as usual being on the trail, had been out rooting, and it was a lad called Paddy Cox in another section, he’d killed a little pig an butchered it and were roasting it like y’see; so of course we got the idea. There were lots of little pigs running about and they’d have been killed or they’d have died of starvation, so it was a treat for us and a blessing for them, that we’d killed these little pigs. We all got quite adept at being butchers, so we could kill a pig and have it butchered in quick time. Horace had been doing his usual round, and he’d been in to see a, well I don’t know if it had been a shop or something, anyways he came in with these little cartons and we didn’t know what they were, they looked like oats so we said it were like Quaker oats y’see. So the next morning we had the Big Dixie on the boil and we started pouring these flakes in, anyway it turned out it were a lovely porridge; so he’d discovered some honey had Horace, and we had food containers which we filled with honey, we use to pour the honey in with the oats. Coming out of the trenches after all night, y'know, it was a real treat. So what with Horace’s Quaker oats, and Paddy Cox's little pigs we lived very well.

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