Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 098 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)
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1916 August 31 - Sutton Veny p.5.
New Zealander Medical Corps Captain McCaw says "there are two kinds of Englishwomen, the kind on a pedestal, and the rummy in the streets - so that if you say a thing to an Englishman, he thinks you're the rummy. The English people can't
understand the colonials at all - they seem to think each colony should run the others down."
"They are quite suprised when we say that we are not fighting for their great and wonderful country, England, at all, bu for the Empire. It truly is time that they had a war - they wanted waking up."
Outraged that ceding colonies to Germany to end the war was mentioned in Parliament.
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 098 Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)