The Archive · 1938

At the Hospital At the British Military Hospital in Central Road members of the Royal

Army Medical Corps and attached personnel will celebrate Christmas in grand style, for on this day duties have been reduced to a minimum for the private soldiers and a grand spread is to be served. This applies also to patients in the hospital although the unfortunate ones who have been placed on "special diets" will no doubt feel the pangs of hunger as they watch their more fortunate companions delving into the pudding with gusto. At the end of the dinner there will be a "go as you please concert."

Other British units in the city, including -the Royal Army Service Corps, the Royal Corps of Signals, the Headquarters Staff, the Corps of Military Police and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, celebrate in the same style as the larger Corps, special Christmas food "ud other good things having been ordered for the men,

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