NOR PRINCIPALITIES, NOR POWERS."
200
The Ypres Times.
The designs for the school provide one large schoolroom 38 ft. by 20 ft., lobby and
lavatory for children, and outside latrines accessible under cover from the schoolroom,
and also from the playground. A teacher's room, 13 ft. by 11 ft., accessible from the
schoolroom, with separate lavatory and external entrance. The building would be heated
by radiators from a boiler in heating chamber under children's lobby.
The estimated cost is /i,Ó50.
In addition to this, there is the cost of fencing and shaping the grounds to be
provided.
REGINALD BLOMFIELD.
The whole of the Sixteen Hundred and Fifty Pounds for the building of the School
has been subscribed by Etonians and their relatives in memory of the 342 Etonians who
lost their lives in the Ypres Salient.
The Foundation Stone of the School will be laid by Field Marshal Lord Plumer at
.2.30 p.m. on Sunday, July 24th, the inscription on the Stone will be
Hanc Scholam in Memoriam Etonensium
Apud Ypram Occisorum Etonenses Dicaverunt
Die XXIV° Iulii
A.D. M» D CCC° XXVII."
The above mav be of interest to our readers.
W. P. PULTENEY, Lieut-General.
3, Lower Berkeley Street.
It was in the Great Push of 1918 and we had just made an attack. Still, it is not
of that I wish to speak, but rather concerning some events of which the attack was the
cause.
We had won through, and had driven the Hun a little further towards the Rhine
and dawn, God's clear dawn, was breaking.
The attack we had commenced was now taken up by a Brigade who passed through
us, and so we were left to enjoy a bit of well-earned rest.
Some of the fellows snoozed peacefully on the hard, cold ground others went into a
sunken road near-by to prepare breakfast, and receive prisoners.
For a little time I, too, stayed in the sunken road to watch those prisoners and
almost the first thing I saw was a wounded British officer supported (as he limped along)
by two German privates. He had an arm round each r.f their shoulders.
A little later a stretcher was borne in, and on it lay a wounded British Tommy. The
stretcher-bearers were Germans and by the side of the stretcher walked a Boche red-
cross man, who, as soon as the burden was put down, began to re-do the wounded man's
bandages.
It was a strange picture, then, that the dawn revealed in the sunken roadthese
-wounded Britishers ministered to in their troubles bv captive Germans.
Yet away in the distance boomed the guns, and on the horizon flared the rocket-
lights.
Breakfast not being ready just then, I decided to explore the late battlefield. In a
strange manner it fascinated me. It seemed so unusual to be able to wander at will over
a battlefield without any appreciable danger. Often in the history books had I read of
people doing such a thing over the grim Fields of Towton, of Flodden, of Waterloo, etc.
