Turned out at 6.40. Nothing doing in Zepp. line. First part landed. Pay day. Served out with Harry Foremen’s (Freeman’s?) fags & baccy.
Ed. Note: First part landed could be ‘first party landed’. Freeman or Foreman is definitely a capital F at the start. Next to that might be an r but it does not look like the r’s above it in the text. Next to that could be an n or two ee’s.
Think this reads ‘fags and baccy’. You have the phrase ‘ 1st part’ you deciphered it as ‘pact’ in yesterday’s entry. Did Harry die then ?
I changed that to ‘fags & baccy’. Thanks! I don’t think Harry is a shipmate. Back n November 4th, Read mentions ‘Harry Free’s muffler, jersies,’ etc. Freeman might have been a provisioner at that time. I’ve searched for the name using different parameters but nothing has come up so far.
‘Harry Freemans’ is a slang term for something free.
If you smoke the ‘Harry Freemans’ brand, you’re smoking someone elses ciggies!
If the name is used regarding scarfs, etc, they must be comforts for the troops, eh?
Sounds plausible. Yes, comforts for the troops is a good term. Thanks!
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‘Harry Freemans’ is an old English slang term, I’ve never heard the term before but my mother had. I had to google ‘Harry Freeman cigarettes’ to get these links:
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Harry+Freeman%27s&offset=0
But this link takes you to a google ‘book’ on slang which explains the origin of the term: read the entry for ‘Harry’:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tvRp1whVFUsC&pg=PA1382&lpg=PA1382&dq=harry+freeman+cigarettes&source=bl&ots=gR7Q3Z0z6D&sig=_Wv-Zk0jayj0SdYi5SJS5gB5UYA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NdS2UOL-AeeZ0QXWn4CAAw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=harry%20freeman%20cigarettes&f=false
Thanks! This is a great explanation. It looks like it’s an old term, from the 1870s, so that’s why it’s not well known now. I did a screen capture of the actual description with the mention of the civilian donated items mentioned in another post. Good detective work!