22nd December
And we are at our old billet, a private house, I and three more servants have all received parcels from home and we are making this our Xmas day, we had bacon, one egg each and chipped potatoes for breakfast, eggs are a luxury now they are 3 ½ d each and hard work to get any at all.
Dinner was roast beef, potatoes, brussels sprouts which we had seen on the way down and also plum duff and mince pie and a couple of jugs of beer, cigarettes, for tea we are going to have a milk loaf which has come from E, butter, cake sweets etc, I hope everyone in E has as good food for their Xmas day, we shall be back in the trenches dodging the bullets.
Diary of Private W Tapp, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, November 1914- January 1915
Imperial war Museum Archives