The EARE Officers relaxing
Sunday 21st March 1915: The
illustration above shows Captain Walker (on the left) and Lieutenant Keeling
(on the right), with Scotch officers in the centre, in a dug out, enjoying one
of the brief rests that have fallen to the lot of the EARE. During the whole of
the three months that the 1st Field Company have been in France Major
Wilson says their conduct has been “absolutely fine”. Throughout that period
they have only had four days rest, yet they were ever cheerful and carried out
the many tasks that they had been called upon to perform with rare enthusiasm.
Their work includes the making of new trenches, the construction of bridges,
the building of sandbag breast works, the carrying of electric power for
pumping purposes along miles of canal banks, the construction and erection of
wire entanglements and the rendering of houses into a state of defence. Such
tasks require considerable skill and courage when they are under fire, but
their conduct is splendid.
Source: Bedfordshire
Standard 1st April 1915
No comments:
Post a Comment