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On This Day Italy 1943 1 Green Howards Pvt. Hamilton

 

On This Day: Christmas 1943 - Italy

Private Roy Hamilton 1 Green Howards Regiment recorded in his diary:

Christmas Day 1943

Christmas Day 1943 was just another very cold, very wet, very grim day here.   For dinner we had corned beef hash and the inevitable, so-called rice pudding.   As it had been brought forward in containers to us, it was barely warm.   Still, we did manage to say: “Happy Christmas” to each other.”


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