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10.10.42
No.16
HARVEST DESTIVAL A LOMT
Leading Cook Boer of H..S. MAGLET, a naval base ship at a British port, has been busy baking this week-end.
He has baked the name of his ship in the biggest dish he could find on board. He has baked loaves and carved acorns, oak leaves and fir cones out of baked potatoes.
For this Sunday, in the Church rigged on the signal deck
This of the ship, they are holding Harvest Festival Afloat. Sunday morning storming lights will be lit on either side of the altar, and the 133-year-old figurehead of on ... DAGLE of the olden days of sail will look down upon sheaves, narros, potatoes and cabbages grown by n vol ratings and rons in the ship's allotment ashore.
Under the dangling models of oneny aircraft, used during the week or the instruction of anti-aircraft gunners, naval ratings and merchant secmen will moel side by side to thank God for the harvest which has :de their task casior. Painted on a beam above their heads they will read the words:-
"It is upon the Navy, under the Good Providence of God that the Safety, Honour and Welfare of this Real: do chiefly depend.
There will be seamen Trơn many lands ira Holland, Norway, Poland, hence and Belgium whose thoughts will turn to distant
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Harvest Festivals in happier days.
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