Pat on the Back'
FOR NAT. PAT- ■ leaving the middle East a considerable amount of recreation equipment, etc., was placed aboard each ship as a result of the National Patriotic Fund (money supplied by our people at home). The allocation for D ship was 'as follows :—1704 parcels. 24 dart sets, 6 sets of boxing gloves, 12 deck tennis nets, 6 medicine balls, 50 draught sets, 24 chess sets, 25 sets Chinese checkers, 15.000 sheets of writing paper, 5.000 envelopes, 144 pens and nips, 500 Lotto blocks, 5 Shun Ting sets, 400 packs of playing cards, 5 Bingo sets, 12 large bottles of ink. 221,000 cigarettes. Inquiries regarding these items can be made at ERS Library or at unit orderly rooms where permission has been granted for their withdrawal from the storeroom.
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Highlander, Volume 1, Issue 11, 11 April 1945, Page 2
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132Pat on the Back' Highlander, Volume 1, Issue 11, 11 April 1945, Page 2
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