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Harrogate Herald - 25th April 1917
W H Breare letter
Mrs J Ernest Powell called to see me, and told me
she had had a letter from her friend Lieutenant Colonel J Walker,
DSO, commanding a Division of Field Artillery. The Colonel had asked
her if it was possible to send out for his men some socks, as they
were badly in need of them. These men are just now in the thick of
it, and would welcome the socks. Colonel Walker recruited a
thousand men and trained them in Harrogate and Ripon. I had socks
enough on hand to send a first consignment, and I am going to ask,
in the Gossip, my Harrogate friends to contribute more socks, so
that I may be able to send other parcels later. I shall retain in my
office sufficient to meet the daily demand for a couple of pairs or
so from boys at the Front and relatives at home who cannot afford in
these war times to purchase for their lads.
Harrogate Herald - 2nd May 1917
Wednesday Gossip
Among the articles despatched to soldiers at the Front this week
are a football to Rifleman H Blackburn; body cord to Bandsman
Thompson; razor strop and case to T Ellis; 42 pairs of socks to Lieutenant
Colonel J Walker, DSO, in France; mouth organ to Private R H
Oram; Pathe records to a ship's company in the Mediterranean.
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