QUEEN MARY VISITS THE BABY CAMP AT CHURCH STREET, DEPTFORD, LONDON. HER MAJESTY WENT AS A ROYAL BUT VERY WOMANLY MOTHER TO SEE SOME OF HER BABY SUBJECTS, AND IS SHOWN ROCKING THEM ON THEIR FAVOURITE HORSE TO THE INTENSE DELIGHT OF THE CHILDREN. These Spartan babies, after getting over their shyness, toddled after the Queen, chortled gleefully, and in infant language called her “nice mummy.” During her inspection of the home a cherub of 14 months held out his hand to the Queen and gurgled “Brooch, brooch,” indicating one she was wearing. “Tommy” Foulds (14 months) was more reticent than the other babies. The Queen described him as a lovely boy, but nothing she said could induce him to speak to her, so she dubbed him “Solemn Tom.”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1521, 19 June 1919, Page 7

QUEEN MARY VISITS THE BABY CAMP AT CHURCH STREET, DEPTFORD, LONDON. HER MAJESTY WENT AS A ROYAL BUT VERY WOMANLY MOTHER TO SEE SOME OF HER BABY SUBJECTS, AND IS SHOWN ROCKING THEM ON THEIR FAVOURITE HORSE TO THE INTENSE DELIGHT OF THE CHILDREN. These Spartan babies, after getting over their shyness, toddled after the Queen, chortled gleefully, and in infant language called her “nice mummy.” During her inspection of the home a cherub of 14 months held out his hand to the Queen and gurgled “Brooch, brooch,” indicating one she was wearing. “Tommy” Foulds (14 months) was more reticent than the other babies. The Queen described him as a lovely boy, but nothing she said could induce him to speak to her, so she dubbed him “Solemn Tom.”