Informal Gatherings
THE YPRES TIMES
Please book these dates in your Diary.
THE MONTHLY
FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH AND
APRIL,
will be held at
THE BEDFORD HEAD HOTEL,
MAIDEN LANE, STRAND, W.C.2
on
THURSDAY, 19TH JANUARY, 1933.
Illustrated Talk on With the Grand Fleet
in the Great War," by Captain E. L.
Frewen, R.N.
THURSDAY, ióth FEBRUARY, 1933.
Illustrated Talk on Salonika.
THURSDAY, i6th MARCH, 1933.
Programme by St. Dunstan's Concert Party.
THURSDAY, 20TH APRIL, 1933.
Programme by 85 Club."
From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Start the year 1933 well by paying us a visit
at our Gathering on Thursday, 19th January,
x933- A very hearty welcome awaits you and
any ex-Service friend whom you may wish to
bring along.
Full particulars of the Gatherings will be sent
by the Hon. Secretary, London County Com
mittee, to a friend on receipt of name and
address.
Ladies are cordially invited.
meation of its influence to a section of the
gathering, not entirely unacquainted with field
guns and batteries, but the fact remains that it
necessitated the best stentorian parade voice of
Major Montague Jones to entice a competitive
community singing party back to the fold from
a position, entrenched but not invulnerable.
The primary object of the Ypres League is
commemoration and the fostering of the spirit
of comradeship born of the war. These Smoking
Concerts surely play their part in this grand
purpose. To catch snatches of conversations of
old durationers to see that middle-aged
man trying his hardest to recognize in another
who has just approached him, a comrade of the
Menin stuntto hear those choruses from four
hundred throats indubitably does the heart
good. The need of comradeship is as great
to-day as it was during those now long-ago days.
Many a fellow still finds there's a long, long trail
awinding, just as he did along the PopYpres
Road on those miserably wet October nights and,
not a few find they still have a share of troubles
±0 pack in their old kit bags. But it's hard for
some to smile. There is solace, however, in
comradeship, and the League offers this.
Eleven o'clock terminated an altogether en
joyable evening. An evening appreciated for
its pleasant entertainment, the opportunity
afforded of meeting old friends, and its sociable
company.
A. R. F.
THE BOMBARDIER'S FOURSOMES.
Third, Fourth and Fifth Battles.
In the third battle the Bombardier himself
and Lindsay were unfortunate enough to be
defeated by Kerr and Tissingtonthis pair
played quite blamelessly, and the worst that
can be said of them is that it is always very
tactless to defeat the C.O., especially on his own
course.
Hines and Meredith came through against
Adams and Macfarlane at Coulsdon Court, 1 up.
It has already been reported that Rae and
Crute beat Mutton and Duncan, 3 and 2.
Featherstone and Carr did well against the
pros.Irens and Ha(g)ineat Purley Downs
in their third battle, and won by the unfriendly
margin of 6 and 4.
Up to that point the dates fixed for the various
battles had been fairly well kept, but there came
delays in the two fourth battles.
In the first of these, Rae and Crute came out to
Coulsdon Court to play Feathers and Carr one
evening early in September, but Fate and The
Staff team were against them, so that they
suffered defeat, 6 and 5.
Hines and Meredith would be better named
Box and Cox, as when one is not away on
holiday the other is, so that a month elapsed
before they met Kerr and Tissington one fine
afternoon at Coulsdon Court. This was the
third occasion that they had had the choice of
course and yet had to play on the enemy's home
their own being barred by the rulesa small
matter they did not omit to mention in loud
protest.
No eye-witness account of the battle is avail
able, but the writer who was engaged some five
holes behind, was able to follow progress by the
series of loud noises
Kerr and Tissington were reported the
winners, 4 and 2, but Hines says (among other
things) that his side won really because he was
bluffed out of two tee shots, which cost two
holes, added to which there should have been
two strokes penalty on Kerr and Tiss. for local
knowledge, so that being four holes better off
that way, they must have won on the 19th at
least
As it was, the 19th was played in the usual
way.
Owing to a multitude of other battle engage
ments, the fifth (and final) battle could not be
staged until November 13tha fitting con
clusion to a summer tournament.
Three of the four being members, and fourth
a past member, of Coulsdon Court, it was felt
that this course was sufficiently neutral for the
purpose.
