WORLD WAR ONE NORTHAMPTON INDEPENDENT SOLDIER NEWSPAPER ARTICLES   

                PTE. W. E. KIGHTLEY of the R.A.M.C., Jan, 1916

                                Some interesting references to life in Serbia and Salonika are given by Pte. W. E. Kightley.

                                “Still living on the old biscuits.  Have to buy our own bread, if we have any, and it runs away

                            with our cash.  We are poorly fed, and if we could get no bread should have a bad time.  There

                            are scores of men and women about the camps begging and selling.  Figs cost 5d. to 8d. a string,

                            oranges are 1d. each, and tangerines two a penny.  The cigarettes are not at all nice.  The county

                            fills you with loathing after good old England.  You can understand what sort of country it is when

                            I say that our food has to come on mules every day and our ambulance is split into eight ports with

                            the hospital at the end farthest from the lines.  We are a small party of a dozen, and we carry from

                            station to station so that our patients gradually reach the base – a work of hours.”