Monday 19th
July 1915: A father of men in the East Anglian Royal Engineers has contacted us
with the following plea: “I would, as a parent with two sons serving in the
EARE like to make an appeal in your columns for the privilege of leave to be
granted to the Sappers. When the call was made for recruits last September these
lads nobly responded, and after a few weeks training, were sent to front
instead of getting home on the Christmas leave they had been looking forward
to. Surely now, after seven months of active service, and with so many of the
older hands and reserves still in England a rest could be arranged for those
youngsters by sending home one section at a time. Tomorrow may be too late and I
am quite aware that these lads are eagerly looking forward to a few days’ leave
with their friends, and it may be their last, so why deny it them any longer?
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