"FATHER" AND CAMP LIFE.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-—Referring to “Father’s” letter in last night’s ‘Star,’ he could not know tha,t I have had some experience of camps, military and otherwise, commencing in England in the year 1865, and winding up on the shores of the “Lake of the Grand Isles,” Canada, some 20 years ago. Having detrained at such places as Aldershot, Dover, Dublin, etc., and, after a train journey, enjoyed tho hospitality of good soldier comrades already in camp or barracks, I still adhere to the opinion that there was a lack of the initiative on the part of officers and men at Matarae when they permitted any detachment to arrive by rail on a cold night at a late hour and neglected to boil the billies and prepare liquid and other refreshment for their comrades in arms. When in receipt of 4d per day Tommy Atkins would have done better than our Territorials.—l am, etc., Ex-Volunteer. April 29.
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Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 5
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