CAMP TO RECALL 1914

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 23 April 1936, Page 12

CAMP TO RECALL 1914

“Old Contemptible#” to Mobilise 1 BUT NO FATIGUES (From Qur Special Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) LONDON, March 28. Survivors of the first British Expeditionary Force to France in 1914 are planning to spend their summer holidays in camp together. Two thousand are to remobilise at Bhornclifl'e, Kent, on August 1 next for eight days. Friends of the Old Contemptibles’ Association are trying to raise £lOOO to pay the expenses ol half the campers ■‘wuose circumstances would not otherwise permit them to attend.” ‘‘lt is a great idea,” Mr. T. 8. Quick, honorary secretary of the association, said. "During Bank Holiday week rich and pour men who shouldered rifles together in the dark days of 1914 will reunite under one banner again. The camp will be run on real military lines, and the old regimental cooks, barbers, etc., will go back to their war-time jobs. We propose to send an advance party of unemployed members to prepare the site, lay water-mains and put up tents. There will be no drills. Every day will be a soldier’s dream—one long programme of recreation. Instead of Orders reading ‘Route March, Drill, Fatigues, Physical Training, Musketry,’ they will go something like this: ‘Swimming, Football, Cricket, Tennis.’ And we hope to have a Tattoo.”