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Our "Campaign Comforts " Fund.

5th November 1914
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Personal Assistance from Ladies.

The progress of our "Campaign Comforts" Fund calls for space in another part of this issue (pages 174 and 175). The list of cash donations to date is highly satisfactory, but more support is wanted. A much larger sum than the 1:250 which we are able to record as the total received to Monday afternoon last can be expended usefully, to the end that the peculiar and special hardships of THE MEN WITH THE WAGONS may be relieved during the cold and trying weather of the next few months. We an, flounce the response to date with all the greater pleasure, seeing that our Fund is but one of hundreds, and above all because it was established relatively late in the day. The liberality of our readers will be prized many more times than by us, highly though we appreciate it, by the drivers and their mates with the lorries, the motor omnibuses and the tractors. They are and will remain our particular charge. We learnt, after going to press with our issue of fast week, that the wives of several transport and supply officers had undertaken the duty of collecting individually certain comforts for the Army Service Corps generally, but with no special reference to the men of the heavy brigade. Their efforts and intentions, as a matter of fact, concerned the general personnel of the Army Service Corps, including thousands of drivers of horse-drawn vehicles, and other men in the stores and depots at the bases an the Continent,. We are now able to announce our success in forming a committee of ladies as follows :—Mrs. S. S. Long, wife of the Director of Transport and Supplies at the War Office, Mrs. W. E. Donohue, wife of the Chief Inspector of Mechanical Transport, and Mrs. R. K. Bagnall-Wild. We are most happy to be able to state that these ladies, acting in conjunction with Mrs. Shrapnell-Smith, now form the ladies committee of our Fund. This will protect the" mere men" against the risk of their making either amus• mg or costly mistakes in respect of someof the woollen comforts. Furthermore, it will reassure ladies who are working themselves to keep up supplies for us.


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