6th January 1916
Announcement Date: 06/01/1916
“On Xmas day they had poultry for dinner & it was served up all feathers & only slightly cooked & with most of the internals still in. One chap reckoned he would undertake to resuscitate one rooster for a fair wager. The whole crowd went out on strike & had all the officers out & there was just about a riot. Major Ross, our head man, was hooted off the ground. Next day the man who had acted as spokesman was placed under open arrest for a week. That is he just knocks about as usual but is liable to be called up at any time but of course there has been no more said.”
Len Shepard – Letter 18 – Zeitoun Camp
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Fenwick, Percival (1915) Camp at Zeitoun. Auckland War Memorial Museum album 337