JACK TAR AS HOST

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 2

JACK TAR AS HOST

HOW OUR BOYS FARED AFTER GALLIPOLI.

Private V. Gledhill, of O Company, Fifth Reinforcements, writes enthusiastically of the, treatment accorded,by the sailors'to the troops which boarded the warships after the evacuation of | Gallipoli -. "We left our trenches at 8.45 p.m. on Saturday, and -the arrangements were so perfect'' that we were in L'emnos Harbour before daylight on Sunday morning. There was a lovely surprise for us there. They put us bn board the. warship Hibernia. The next thing we saw was the "Jack Tars dishing out lovely hot cocoa—and it was good.' They next told us to no down below where breakfast was ready for us. ' "The first thing we got was a large basin of pea soup, followed by tea or cocoa, "and meat sandwiches and bread and jam... They then gave us cigarottos, and after came the order that the bathrooms were at our disposal. The ship's band turned out and played uiltil wo left the ship. I did not think it was possible for men to show so much attention to other men, as these tar« did to us. ,They showed us round their guns and soomed to know our every want. We were on the ship about two hours, and I am sure a nioro satisfied crowd of men never stepped ashoreon Lennios before. So much for our sailors —they-a.ro grand.