THE YPRES TIMES
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after the brilliance of the dug-out; instinct alone guided your footsteps. In the dug-out all
sound was deadened; you could hear nothing from without. But now you discovered that the
guns were firing in Ypres itself—fitfully yet frequently. Their banging and booming awoke a
thousand echoes. Every time a gun fired, the reflection of the flash lit up jagged ruins, a naked
wall or the skeletons of houses.
These words, written by my friend Wilfred Ewart who was afterwards killed
when we were out in Mexico together, have the haunting quality of the unforgettable
and the unforgotten. q
THE number of children
attending the School
has now risen to 130,
it bears witness to the very
successful teaching of Mr.
Allen and his assistants.
Lady Plumer has given
a cup to be competed for
between the two Houses,
called Plumer and Pulteney,
which have been formed in
the School.
An anonymous donor has
given an Encyclopaedia P>rit-
annica for the use of the
School and Library.
The parents have given
their children at the School,
gymnasium tunics, jerseys
and caps for the boys, and
blue serge tunics and green
jerseys with blue berets for
the girls. I understand that
these outfits are very effective
and a tremendous success.
General Sir William
Furse has given a Plaque of
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales,
herewith reproduced, to be hung in the Eton Room at the School.
The Plaque is an excellent impression and should be hung in all schools. It is
the work of the badly disabled ex-service men of the Ashtead Potters.
These Plaques can be obtained from the Ashtead Potters Ltd., Ashtead, Epsom,
Surrey, price £1 Is. Od. each with 2/- extra for packing and postage, and every
possible encouragement should be given to this fine Institution.
The Trustees of the School have invested the money subscribed by members of
the Ypres League to a Memorial to Field Marshal Lord Plumer. This money is
allocated at the rate of 10% per annum to start one boy in work in England every
year. The Scholarship will last twelve or thirteen years.
W. P. Pulteney,
Hon. Secretary,
Ypres British School,