They had a good business...oeufs and chips.

Well, I can recall one little episode. They took us out and we marched about, oh, what was it called? About 15- 20 kilometres and then we found ourselves in a large field. The large field – that was where we were going to spend our time for a holiday. And we had no shelter, nothing at all, absolutely squat, down in your own field. In the meantime, some of the boys, there was villages close to it. And they went to these villages and they come back with the only thing they could find for a covering for us, to keep us away from the sun, was the window curtains, they’d be like lace. I remember that because that was a joke. When we first went into France and in behind the line, there was a great call for the French women. They were very good to us. But they were making a little business of it - oeufs and chips, oeufs and chips, which was a good thing for us, because I was, I was paid thirty pence, thirty pence a day. The average soldier got 25 pence a day, but seeing I had the mechanical part or the army service corp., that part of it, I was given 5 cents more than the other guys. There was a bone of contention. How come we get twenty-five cents a day and he gets thirty? But anyway, but I was going to go back to the French women, they were very good to us, very good. They made some good oeufs and chips. Eggs and chips, yeah.