Sortie Wagon Hill

The Rifle Brigade, now on Wagon Hill, had spotted some chickens running about Bester’s farm in the valley to the south of the hill and decided to raid the farm for a badly needed change in their diet. They succeeded in bringing in one old hen and several unripe peaches; the remainder of the fowls proving too long in the leg. The peaches, unappetising though they looked, proved a salvation, as there was an unlimited supply and when stewed were really excellent.