Our Live Letter Box

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 14, 2 August 1940, Page 5

Our Live Letter Box

V.C. “Guard Duty,” Wellington, writes:— Will you cause inquiries to be made as to the youngest V.C. of the last war? Was it the late Edward Dwyer, of the East Surreys? ANSWER : Inquiries? WE KNOW.

You’re wrong. It was Edward Benn Smith, who as barely nineteen when he wiped out a machine-gun nest of six men single-handed, and then led his men to the rescue of another platoon. He went to France last year with the first contingent of the 8.E.F., and was promoted lieutenant. He died from wounds in France. * * * * ON THE EDGE. “K.T.,” Papakura, writes:— ( What about saving Italy by taking her under our “protection”? ANSWER: It’s not so easy to protect anyone teetering on the edge of a lo;t of cold water. **. * * ON THE CARDS.- ' ,

Paper’s scarce. It costs 2d. to send a letter. 4 - ' . How are you boys who want to know where you’re wrong, or where somebody else is, going to manage? S easy! Cram it all on to a postcard! Saves you a penny. Saves us having to wade through page after page of windy explanations. Saves your paper. Saves ours by getting more grouses to the column! So remember. Try to get it on a post-card. Thanks! * * * * " NOT THROUGH. “Scotty,” Dorset, writes:- — Is armour plate proof against a really heavy bomb? ANSWER: Well, experts reckon it would take something heavier than a 2,000 lb. bomb to penetrate si inch armour of the type battleships have on their decks.

ANGELS. “Tommy,” Trentham, writes:— How many men do the German troop-carrying planes carry? !■ .ANSWER: About 20. * * * *

PLANE SAILING. “Outsider,” ?, writes: — However weak we are physically—and poor- can all fight Hitler on the mental planer Let us . meet Hitler with his own weapons — which are psychic. ANSWER: Are we? Can we?. Shall we ? P.S.—Are they? *** ' ♦ TRYER. “3rd Echelon,” Papakura, writes: — Is it possible for a Scotsman to change English money in Germany, direct or indirect? ANSWER: We don’t see anyone BUT a Scotsman even trying it!

SEEIN’ THINGS. “Cobber,” Wellington, writes: — This is a true ghost story, believe it or not. ' ' ' I have been in contact with the supernatural three times, and each time a member of my family died within a week. The first time I was awakened when my bed was shaken by a figure in white standing at its foot. My mother died three days later. The second time the same thing , happened and my brother died. The third time I saw this ghost, my other brother died after returning all the way from China. I am a staunch T.T., and I have never had any dealings with spiritualism. ! ANSWER: You try a drop of the good now and again, and you’ll see better things than that . . . with far different results, too. Not that we touch it, but we have heard .. . . .