Sunday 19 July 2015

Leave for Sappers



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?

Source: Bedfordshire Times 23rd July 1915

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