LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Ypres Times.
Goldsmiths' Hall, London, E.C.2.
20th January, 1924.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
Dear Sir,
May I make a correction of your memory
tablet in this month's issue
March 27th, 1916. The Mound (not Mount)
at St. Eloi was taken by the 4th Royal Fusiliers
and the 1st Battalion of the Northumberland
Fusiliers and not the nth Northumberlands as
stated.
I also notice in jour list of V.C.'s won in the
Salient the omission of the name of the Rev.
E. N. Mellish, Chaplain to the 9th Brigade, who
won his V.C. at the taking of the Mound when
attached to the 4th Royal Fusiliers.
Yours faithfully,
Humphrey H. Prideaux, Major.
I,ate Northumberland Fusiliers and Staff Captain,
9th Brigade.
[The Rev. E. N. Mellish is shown in the official
list as having gained his V.C. at St. Eloi in France,
but he should obviously have been included in
our list.—Ed., Y.T.]
17, Villiers Street, Hertford, Herts.
3rd March, 1924.
To ine Editor of The Ypres Times.
Dear Sir,
I should be very grateful if any of your readers
could supply me with the following trench maps
(1) Canal Bank Sector of the Salient, January
to July, 1917.
(2) Menin Road Sector about November 1st,
1917.
(3) Theipval Sector of Somme Front about
November, 1916.
The front held by the 39th Division is of
special interest, as it was with this Division that
i served.
I find it difficult to get detailed maps showing
the old familiar trench names as we knew them,
so I am hoping that some ex-officers or N.C.O.'s
have duplicate maps and can spare some of them.
Yours faithfully,
Edgar W. Smith.
P.S.Can any one tell me if the history of the
39th Division has ever been written, and if so
who are the publishers
Amherst, Nova Scotia,
Canada.
January 29th, 1924.
The Secretary, YprES League,
Dear Sir,
I have received several copies of your paper,
The Ypres Times, from Mr. G. T. Medforth, of
this town, and have enjoyed them so much that
I am enclosing an application for membership.
I wish to offer my congratulations 011 the work
you are doing your paper is especially interesting
to the ex-Service men on this side of the Atlantic,
as it is impossible for us to take advantage of the
excursions to the old familiar places. However,
X hope some day to have another look at the old
Salient and to climb the hills unmolested and to
look on the coveted ground from which all the
trouble used to come.
Wishing you every success in your work.
Yours very truly, R. R. Murray.
53, Albert Street,
Whitstable-on-Sea, Rent.
5th January, 1924.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
Sir,
Can any of your readers give me any news Of
my husband, 2nd Lieut. H. Costin, 10th Batt.,
Royal West Kent Regiment, missing on August
1st, 1917, at Klein Zillebeke? I shall be grateful
if any member of the 10th West Kents could give
me any information regarding him.
Yours faithfully,
Liuax Costin.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
Dear Sir,
I am anxious to get in touch with any of my
old comrades who were in the Salient with me
in '14 and '15.
My unit was the 49th Battery, R.F.A., 3rd
Division. Anyone writing to my address will get
a reply from me.
Yours faithfully,
Godfrey S. Barber.
63, Kinshaw St.,
Maryhill Road, Glasgow.
Can any reader who took part in the action at
Herenthage Chateau, near Inverness Copse, about
21- miles S.E. of Ypres, oil August 22nd, 1917,
give any information concerning the death and
burial of Cyril Thornthwaite Brooke, Acting
Captain, 3rd Dorsets, attached to 6th Somersets,
who was killed at Herenthage Chateau on that
date
If anyone can supply information, will he kindly
write to L.B. c/o The Ypres Times
Central Fire Station, Tottenham,
London, N.15.
February 17th, 1924.
To the Editor of The Ypres Times.
Dear Sir,
I want to point out an error in your January
issue which I feel sure you will be as anxious to
correct as I am to see it corrected. In your list
of V.C. 's won in the Salient and Belgium you have
omitted the very first V.C. ever won by the British
