FRIDAY.--Breakfast: Tea, bread, butter, rissoles, marmalade.
Dinner: Boiled beef, potatoes and onions, Dundee roll. Tea:
tea, bread, butter, jam, slab cake. Supper: Shepherd's pie,
tea, bread, butter.
SATURDAY.--Breakfast: Tea, bread, butter, boiled ham, jam.
Dinner: Thick brown stew, potatoes and cabbage, bread pudding.
Tea: Tea, bread, butter, jam, cheese. Supper: Toad-in-hole,
bread jam.
SUNDAY.--Breakfast: Tea, bread, butter, fried bacon. Dinner:
Roast beef, potatoes and cabbage, stewed fruit, custard. Tea:
Tea, bread, butter, jam. Supper: Soup, bread, butter, cheese.
They are divided into five big classes for work. There are large
numbers of them cooks and waitresses, and many of these cooks come
from the best private houses in England, so the Waacs and the soldiers
fare well. In one camp in the early days sixty women cooks walked in
and sixty men out, released for the fighting lines. The saving in fats
done by the women is very great and their economies admirable and the
women are waitresses in the camps and messes.
In one base in France when twenty-nine cooks came to take charge in
the early days the commanding officer issued an order that expresses
very well the spirit in which the women are regarded.
BASE DEPOT.
The Officer Commanding Base Depot wishes to draw the attention
of all ranks to the following points in connection with the
Domestic Section of the Women's Auxiliary Army, which is
employed in this depot:
These women have not come out for the sake of money, as their
pay is that of a private soldier. In nearly every case they
have lost someone dear to them in this war, and they are out
here to try to do their best to make things more comfortable
for the men in regard to their food.
It, therefore, is up to all ranks to make their lot an easy
and not a hard one during their stay in France. If any man
should so forget himself as to use bad language or at any time
to be rude to them, it is up to any of his comrades standing
by to shut him up, and see that he does not repeat this
offence.
To the older men I would say: Treat them as you would your own
daughters. To the younger men: Treat them as you would your
own sisters.
----, Comdg., Base Depot.
They are doing the clerical work more and more, and in a few weeks
have become so technical that they know where to send requisitions
concerning 9.2 guns or trench mortars or giant howitzers. There is a
favourite story told against an early Waac that when a demand came for
armoured hose, she sent it to the clothing department, but she knows
better now.
French girls are also helping in the clerical department, working side
by side with the Waacs.