RED JERSEY APPEAL.
Extract from Mary Booth's Diary (with tho British Expeditionary Force w Franco): —
Met procession in the dark on our way home. Men going up to the firing line. Full kit; even officers. Alany called out to us "good night," and some "good-bye." For many it was the long farewell. Ao words written about tho war wake a more moving human document ujan that line: "Many called out to us uood night,' and some 'Good-bye.' - " sotoo day there will be an end to the snffanng and the dying in this war, cL 6 18 no^now ' _Some day there will be an end to the enn S. but that end is not now.
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The Vindictive, with her crew of 52, Bwung into the channel and ran her stem against the cast pier in order to swing the ship athwart tho channel. The Vindictive grounded at tho stern, however, and would not swing, so tbe
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16210, 13 May 1918, Page 7
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262RED JERSEY APPEAL. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16210, 13 May 1918, Page 7
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