SOMEBODY'S BOYS.
Branches and Corresponding Members.
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The Ypres Times.
A dear old woman, with hair so white,
With faltering tread, came up with her
mite
For your son was the question she
answered No
My son, he is killed, but there's others,
you know."
There are other laddies," she said, with
a tear,
In her dim old eyes, and I'd like to cheer
Them up a bit for the sake of one
Who was all to me, my darling son."
And somebody's boy, as he smoked his pipe,
Away in the trench on a darksome night,
Gave thanks to the dear old soul so kind,
Who still had somebody's boy in mind.
Oh! heart of gold though rent and torn,
Yet still with courage her lot was borne,
She still had a thought for others' joys,
And gave in love for somebody's boys.
lily levie.
The Unbreakable Coil, Is. 6d. By A. L. K.
Anderson (late Major, 1st K.O. Stafford Militia).
[This book may be purchased through the
League.]
The Unbreakable Coil is a simple narrative
describing in soldierly fashion the experiences
of the writer, an officer of the old Militia, called
up for service in 1914, and later posted to the
2nd Battalion, the South Staffordshire Regiment.
He has placed on record the simple sequence
of events that led him from his home to the
battle scenes of France and Flanders he touches
on nothing beyond his own scope of vision, and
as a result we havé a little book which must give
great pleasure to anyone who went through the
first battle of Ypres and especially to those gallant
Staffordshire men who held the apex of the
triangle which formed the Salient."
In recommending this narrative to readers of
The Ypres Times I must make one extract
"To have lived with and known such men, to
have shared their privations, is a reward that can
only be inadequately dealt with. It is some
thing which cannot be estimated, except by those
privileged to have been with them."
It is to commemorate and foster that spirit of
comradeship that the Ypres League exists.
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BRANCHES.
Hon. Secretary to the London County Committee: J. Boughey, 4B,
Peabodv Buildings, Herbrand Street, W.C.i.
N.W. Branch: Captain C. Alliston, 45, Regents Park Road, N.W.I.
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CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
GREAT BRITAIN.
J. Ashworth, The Gables, Britannia.
Captain C. W. Fowke, Yew Tree House, King's Sutton.
T. Roscoe, 26, Oaklands, Old Mill.
J. E. Simkin, 10, Ellesmere Road, Saltley.
S. R. Phillips, 33, Chapel Street, Rishton.
A. M. Webster, Tacoma, Merrilocks Road.
H. L. Passmore, 40, Morley Road, Boscombe Park.
M. H. Hunt, 7, Gordon Street.
J. W. Jenkins, 11, Mill Lane.
Lt.-Col. G. T. Willan, 5, Goschen Road.
W. N. Channon, 127, Castle Road.
Captain W. Castello, 45, Turners Hill.
W. H. Duncan Arthur, Town Hall.
Thomas A. Lloyd, i. Flat, Bank Chambers.
D. S. Vigo, c/o. 11, Kensington Terrace.
L. H. Davis, Ardsley House, Glen Conway.
Captain G. D. S. Parker, Frodesley Rectory.
Colonel R. Dudgeon, Cargen.
R. Davidson, 46, Chesser Crescent.
Captain E. Jenkin, 25, Queen Street.
E. Thompson, El Abrigo, 7, Wood Avenue.
J ohn Welch, 6, Miles Street, Mardyn.
C. S. Barber, 63, Hinshaw Street, Maryhill Road.
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