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LONDON MEMBERS AND FRIENDS.
AN INFORMAL GATHERING
Edited by E. M. CHANNING-RENTON.
The Ypres Times.
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As we promised in our last number, we have
consecrated the present one to the Second Battle
of Ypres. This year is the tenth anniversary of
the introduction, in defiance of solemn agreements,
of poison into civilised warfare by the Germans.
We trust that our readers will not consider that
we have entirely failed to commemorate in a
worthy manner the event, and the heroism that
it evoked.
OUR PRESIDENT.
We have all heard with sorrow and anxiety
that our President, Lord Ypres, has had to undergo
a severe operation. We are relieved to know,
as we go to press, that he is progressing favourably,
and we voice the feelings of the whole League
when we wish him a speedy and complete recovery.
We had hoped to have held a dinner in London to
commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Second
Battle of Ypres, with our President in the chair.
As it is now impossible that he should be well
enough to be with us, the dinner will be postponed
till later in the year.
LORD RAWLINSON.
As we go to press comes the sad news of the
death of General Lord Rawlinson. He was one
of the Foundation Members of the League and
Chairman of its first Committee. We hope to
publish an adequate notice of him in our next
issue.
BACK NUMBERS OF THE YPRES TIMES.
We frequently receive applications for a com-
plete set of The Ypres Times, of which the
October (1921), April and October (1923) numbers
are now out of print. Will any member willing
to part with one or all of these specified numbers
kindly post them to the Secretary, who will be
very grateful.
With the Forty-Fourths. Being a Record of the
Doings of the 44th Field Ambulance (14th
Division). Spottiswoode, Ballantyne Co.,
Ltd.
Fortunate is the unit which possesses a
chronicler equal to the writer of this book. The
picture which he gives of four years' foreign
service in a Field Ambulance is so true to life that
any member of any Ambulance will recognise
there much of his own experience. The book is a
valuable record of one corner of the modern war
machine, for it describes admirably the peculiar
functions of a front line medical unit. In a
marked degree its duties fluctuate from grave to
gav a few weeks of grim work, collecting wounded
and treating them by hundreds every nightthen
a week or so of rest," with wearied, myasthenic
old men of 35 to be restored to youth with
tinned chicken and bottled stoutand the others
to be cheered up by the unit's admirable comedians.
Every fighting man knows that a Field Ambu
lance is a combination of the untiring, unselfish
family doctor with some of the welcome qualities
of a rich uncle.
Those whose men served in such a unit, and
those whose men passed through its care, cannot
do better than read the book and keep it as a
true record of the facts.
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From 6.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Please make this meeting known io all interested in the League and do not forget to come and bring a friend.
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