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Description
Mr. Walsh describes locating a cellar full of cider while on leave, and being so thirsty that he and his fellow soldiers drank cider to the point of illness.
Transcription
We had two days rest, a chance to wash and get cleaned up. We found a building in the chateau, on the grounds of the chateau. It was half buried in the ground. A big long building. We went in and there was casks, from one end to the other. They were about nine feet high laying on their side, they were about nine feet high. How big, how much they held I don’t know. Of course someone had to put a hole in one of them to find out what was in there, apple cider. We drank until we threw up. We drank until we, well we hadn’t had any water for two solid days then, hadn’t had any food for three days then and you just drank, threw it up, drank it again. Until you quenched your thirst. We weren’t allowed to use the water. We were warned not to touch the water cause they could have very well poisoned the wells that were around. It was in the country. It wasn’t in the town and we had two days of real rest, not a sound going on around us or anything else. That was wonderful.