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THURSDAY, SEýTEMBER 5, 1940 THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO PAGE THREE Letters From. Our Soldiers The fOllowing letter frani R. M Ainslie, formerly an tii. B.H.S teaching staff, ta W. Flaherty Praprietor of Balmoral Hotel, 'Ni read at the Rotary Club luncheci on Friday: Dear Bil and Al: Tiire, days n the air force now and eacii day I know less anc less wiiat t s all about, W. ai( 'at Manning Pool, Toronto, fori Aýew days but s0 far I figure the3 have bot my numnber as ail wi '10 s eat and sleep. In fact, thE only tAm. we have even been Ar line was for churcli parade thic s liqg, and other than aur i su4év0f bedding I am living oui Of fmy suit case as we have beer given no kit, unifarnis or equip. ment of any kind. Tii. rest suifc me fine but according ta rules we can't leave barracks unless in full uniforni 50 at present it coin- pares closely ta ather institutions run by the govrnment but far quit. different purposes. If we ever get definitely established here I may bring dawn my car and n that case will be aver to see you on some of those generou, leaves (4.30 ta 1.30). nT,% meals are good, we sieep * nbu ks, have lots of hot water for showers and siiaving, and in general have little or natiiing .o kick about as yet. Weil I guess that is about ai for naw. If you are ever down h afternoons or evening dri * around and I'il tell you ail the ne*s. GAve my best ta everyone and if you have nothing better tc do write and teil me the news if any. My address is: Ainsile, R. M. No. R68279, Ac. 2 No. 1 Manning Depot, Toronto, Ontarioi St. Lucia Barracks,' Bordan, England Auguet 13, 1940 Dear John:- Just another letter ta add ta your "Letters fromn Overseas" column. Weil, here s ýnother lo- cal lad here in England on active service, but witii us thoughts continually wandering back ta 'Canada and ta. home town of Bowmanvilie. I'd be home ta- morrow but it s a littie too far away ta taink about going A.W. O.L. It was a sweil trip aver and the convoy Was go large that the Reines wauldn't dare talc. a chance ta attack us. With the. Canadian naval destroyers escort- ing us weil into the Atlantic, and British destroyers taking over the. job from there on, we were as safe as thougli we were still n the. barracks at Cobourg. Speaking of the town of Co. M. bourg, ta. home of my origAnal S. Battery, the. l4th, I sure wisii the ý, boys who enlisted with me last as faîl were along writli me. The )n army has sanie funny rules and regulations. I left the l4th Bat- tery n Ferbruary and was trans- ferred ta Kingston, the. R.C.A. idtraining depot, because of my. age. rI ai d enougli ta enlist but not aold enough for active service. When. I became of age last March I applied for a transfer bacc to .e my aid outfit, but I was refused. LInstead I landed up with "C' is Bty., a First Division Renforce- s-ments Battery, and thus, arnivec Ihere in England while my ciiums nand the, rest o! the l4th are still in training at Petawawa. ts As I am but 12 miles froir 5s Aldersiiot I have been dowr ,n there looking up the. local lqnhs ithere, namely Dick Wright, Rus- is seil Candler, Bob Hayes, but sc )r bar I haven't met with any suc- ,e cess. Nevertheless I keep try. d ing for I sure would be glad to r meet someone frora the same ;o town or district. IS I met Lieut. Drury of Cobourg ,Who was formerly attached ta tiie pl4th but was sent over here on r service because o! uis capabillty. EL W. had quit..a chat. The relative 0 class of the local basebaîl clubs was our main topic, witii the local Il Rayais getting the, edge over ta. M Cobourg team, aithough neither pof us know the. standing o! eitaer eat thus time. But I feel sure ta. eRayais are at the. top of the. league Das in former years. Ami I riglit? f Englsud sure s a lovely coun- try, but I'm sure ta. nartliern part of tais islsud has t beat. W. landed at a port in Scotland - neyer saw sucii a sight in ail my life. It was reaily turilling. W. came down througii Glasgow and througii England ta aur camp here just outsîde London. Neyer in the. whale trip, including the. run from Petawawa through ta. Eastern Provinces, was there scenery ta beat that of Scatlsud. Maybe t was ta. joy of seeing land after 10 days at sea, or may- be t's just my Scotch descent. But whatever t was, t sure look- ped good ta me, and I mesu really good. Weil Mn. James, I'm now just 50 mil-es froni England's front Uines. At least ta. Britisiiers now cansider ta. coast taeir front lin. o! defences. I had iioped ta se. Paris *ile I was over here, but Hiter lias spoiled tii.t. But who knows maybe M'Il get ta see t yet, The atmosphere around here s a littie tense. I don't think the Bri- tish are going ta be content ta wait for an invasion. 0f course that's my own opinion, a simple t "Orne Reason 1 ENJOT a a a GLEN RAZ DAIRT 1 Qmem Elzabeth Opens Leave-Hotel Fer Canadian Servi cemn.in London, Engla.d Royal Visitor. - With a charn- Ithe. Staff (Commissioner A. G. make-up of the Hotel that did not tAon of the. dining-room - and ing smile, and wards of compli- Cunningham), Major A. Steele, came within Her Majesty's n- non. o! t was arrayed atherwisel ment for the excellent work being Director of The Army's Overseas spection. She noted ta. welcom- than on ardinary afternoons. She carried 'on, ta. Queen leaves the War Services, and Lieut.-Colonel ing atmrosphere of ta. vestibule, went up to thie bedraoms and, as recently-opened Leave-Hotel for Martin. In the background s Mrs. and walked into the kitchens and scores of otiier visitors have don., Canadian servicemen in London,1 Adjutant Pilfrey, a Canadian 0f- taked with the, maids as if they remarked, "How can you ýdo t Eng. With Rer Majesty are Gen- ficer engaged in Auxiliary work. were niaids of Glamis Castle. for the, money? You people are enal G. L. Carpenter, the Chief o! Ther, was not an item in the She commented upan the invita- marvellous." gunnen a! the. artiilery, sa yau can see it's nat as reliable as f t came froni Sir Winstan Chur- chill (God bless-him). Ailthe. Britishers add tiiat when they speak a! him. You can let ta. vets of ta. town know w. are stil carrying on the, aId traditions, The. Canucks are StÛR referned ta as those "wild Canadians." Sa witu this wil close iioping tais letter finda you and everyone else An town n tue best of healta and that the circulation o! the Bowlnanviile Statesman s rapid- ly rising. Gunner Wiseman, L. Rgt. No. C18655 No. 1 Can. Art. Holding Unit B. Bty. Base Post Office, Canada. -gi. tri t ri Hi N l0a William Tait lias very kindly yen us permission ta use ex- 'acts fromn a letter h. received 'rm an English relative, Corp. farold Iri'ing, who served i the qorway canipaign. The letter foi- ows: Prom Cpi. Harold Irving, 7357131 22nd Gen. Hospital, RAMC. Llanion Barracks, Pembroke Dock Dear Jack:- Well Jack, haw are you getting on? It's ages since I last wrate you sa I intend ta make tais a long letter as I have plenty ta talk about. The chie! thing that has hap- pen.d An the. last fw mantisis A that I have been ta Norway, taus realizing an, o! my life's ambi- tions. W. le!t England on or about the. 8th o! Apnil sud arnived An Norway (a fjord) about six days laten. W. had been lying at anchor for about a day sud every- one was taking thein tme about getting us off when a German plane came frai. Nowhere, ma- chine gunned ta. decks sud drop- ped a bomb about 10 yards from ta. deck. I (sud evenyon, .5.e, I'm sure) iiad tue friglit a! aur lives and tue arrngements for geting us off wene speed.d Up. W. were transferr.d ta a de- stroyer sud atter about 1 ½ hours lsuded at a place cailed Harstad.i This s 50 miles nortu o! Narvik and 152 miles inside ta. Anctie crdle. It wasn't too coldas win- ter was nearly aver at the tinie. Prom tue decks we saw ta, aw,- inspiring siglit o! higli snaw-cov- ened maunitains on eithen side O! tefjod, which I shail neyer for- g. I .n't know, even naw, haw tae people here live or wiiere their food could have came from. Harstad iiad a population o! about 4000 and was quite a pros- peraus littie place. W e marched 2 % miles ta aur billet aver streets talck with Ice. Tii. billet was a boarding school. After a tAm. w, 1 *were allowed ta go into town.i There w.re a !ew modern build- t ings n ta. place but for tue most b they wer.. small wooden housest all standing about two feet above t tue ground ta raise them, abovev the snaw, I suppose. We made far n tue cafes niglit away and yau can i Agine tue fun w. iiad trylng ta mak, tue people undenstand. Tii.t4 cafes didn't seem ta catr for reale meals and ail we could get were t] pleces o! bread wltii diffenentn kcinda o! meat on the. top. I didn't take ta ta. type a! Nor- 0: wegians we saw. Anyway, I know 0 ta. place was full a! spies. b The most neîarkable thing wasP tue unending daylight. On. baile, thing about tais was tat t ee abled the. Jerries ta raid all tira' tI tue night. We had about five raids i a day; when the planes came over taey were at terni! le heigiits. w Then. must hiave been hundreds w o! shelîs f ired every minute from ui ail aur antl-aircraft guns. rE We were away from - Erigland ti, eight weeks. We left June 3rd in great secrecy by destroyer and di then transferred ta a sip afterM coming out o! ta. fjord. It was di Iust the type o! weataer ta make e a getaway. The Jernies were aI- ways flying about n tuein bomb- era sud if w. had been spotted t tc would have been gaod-bye. 13 1 was neyer go relieved ta see mr the. Englisu cauntryside as when hc w. sailld Up ta. Clyde. We are, a once again, awaitig orders. Wl 1 am sndlng you soie Non- ar weglan coins which you can add i s15 or 80 Years Ago ibour on the farm forxneriy oc- cupied by Harry Hambiy. What a busy town this place would be for weeks before a holi- day l1ke Dominion Day! The YOUng people wouid need a new outfit as you could flot go An and buy a ready-made as to-day. So that tailors, shoemakers and dress- makers would have to, work over- tAin. to get tii. work out in time sangs were not turned out by tii. and tae hotels would have ta lay An a stock o! liquors and food to !eed the. hungny and tairsty, especially tae latter. But every- tiiing wauld go of! ail riglit, per- iiaps same might overstep the mark, but as a rule the policemen would have no trouble, even if a !igiit or two miglit happen. Tii. song "Tramp~, Tramp ta. Boys are Marching"l came from tiie American war zone and was adopted by aur saldiers at the time o! the. Fenian Raid ta words appropriate ta the occasion. "John Brawn's Body," anather American sang, was much An evidence as a marching tune An tuis periad. But Deng a Milkman 1 lk to ueo the healthy, umliug faces of the cblidren as they seramble out te meet me and get their MUi. 1I bel as It 1 play a big part ln keepfng them weU and strong... and 1 det But 1 reailse, tee, that lt's resfly GLEN BA£ MILK that does the. job .. . pleuty or it, EVERY DAY ... that's where 1 corne ln. Your Glen Rae Driver TELEPHONE 2865 11 Mm le st ie id t- truck Ioad as to-day but were of YOUR HOSPIAL a higher order, musicaily speak -____ ing. About this time the. 45th Batt. The stimulus behind the. anaz- under Col. Cubitt did the usual ing progress andi development in summer camp drill in the drill hospital and medical services over shed park grounds which was also the. past few decades has come not used for the Agriculture Fair. froni witiiout but fromn within the About this time the Dominion rnedical profession itself. A glance Organ & Piano Ca. came on the throuigh the history of hospitals scene and taok a great interest An and medicine brlngs ta light the military matters, especially in the fact that the growth and develop- 45th. The first brigade drill was ment of these services owe their hele in Cobourg wîth E. R. Boun- origin and progress ta medical sali as bandmaster and Col. Cubitt men and women who have con- comninding. The next was held ceived a great idea and had the. at Barriefield, Kingston, with Ai- caurage, endurance and vision to lie Brown as bandmaster. and the, develop t in spit. of great next was in the same district, but obstacles. not at Barriefield, but fartiier east Countless thousands of people f the city The band was led by owe their lives to that qalityr Capt. Ed. Meath, with Sergeant within the medical profession N. S. Young An charge. which is neyer content witli the Then the 45th headquarters pragress t has made, but must were changed from this town ta be forever restiessly striving ta Lindsay and was dane under the find new cures for the suffering, direction of Col. Sam Hughes. At and raise is standards of care for one of the last camps at Kingston the sick. Col. John Hughes was An coni- Take the nursing profession, for mand and now the whole order example. Led by Florence Night- s changed. This As now known as ingale, nurses, stimulated by vis- the, Midland District and comi- ion f their high cailing, have, prises this tawn, Orono, Lindsay, thrugh their own efforts, raised Port Hope, Cobourg, Campbell- the standard of nursing ta a high' ford and Millbraok, and the. degre.. They no longer demand Commanding Officer As Cal. A. H-. of theniselves practical experience (Bert) Bounsaîl, Milibrook. alan., but must know the tiieory An episade of the aid 45th was and reason behind the care they the home coming af the soldiers are giving. To-day theary is re- from the North West Rebellion. cognized as equal in importance The company was a dirty and ta practice, and nurses are obtain- ragged bunch of soldiers witii ing this knowledge through care- clothes patched witii flour bag fully supervised Sehools o! Nurs- material and caps M~ade of the ing An ail o! the. big hospitals. same. The. band played. themn up The. standard now set requires town from the wharf and the that a professional nurse should ladies of the tawn gave them a be able te give expert nursing banquet An the aId drill shed. care; have knowledge o! house- Capt. John Hughes was An charge. iiald arls; b. able ta observe and A band and a company frani ta interpret the. physical nianifes- Cobourg came down by the same tations o! a patient's condition boat., and aise the social and environ- There were certainly military mental factors which may hasten doings An those aid days with or delay lis recavery; b. able ta many amusing episodes and many apply, An nursing situations, tiiose that were nat 30 amusing, but t prmnciples of mental hygiene whicii was the life of that period. wlll niake a better understanding of the. payehological factor in i11- ness; be capable of taking part in LABOR the promotion o! health and the prevention of disease; b. able ta teacli measures ta conserve health Labor As discovered ta be the and ta restare health; b. able ta grand conqueror, enricig and co-operate effectively with the. building up nations more surely family, ta. hospital personnel and than the proudest battles. - Wilhealth and social agencies An the. liam Ellery Channing. interests of patient and commun- Joy An one's work s the con- ity. summat, taal.-Phiilips Brooks. Hospitals, doctors, nurses - Tih. man who does flot worlc for they form, civilization's "front the lave o! work but anly for lin."I against sickness and disease mon.y As not likely ta make mon- - and that "front lin.," due ta ey nor ta find mucli fun in 1f.- their efforts, As growing steadlly Charles M. Schwab. more impregnable. "Tramp, Tramp tue Boys are Marching", seenis ta be ta. domin- ant ciiord nowadays in tais townV and district. This reminds us of warlike times in this town yeans ago when th. Fenian uprixsing started tae trouble. About tuat time tae 45th Batt. gat busy and companies were formed in Orono with Capt. J. L. Tuckr cammsud- ing; also in Newcastle, Capt. John Rabsan; Cartwright, Capt. Jaiin Hughes; Bowmanvile Ca. No. 1, Capt. James Rutledge, afterwards George Mann. W. imagine a 2nd Ca. was fonmed An tawn with Capt. Scott as iiead officer in charge. Sam Hughes, was a Lieut. in th. Cartwright Company An taat period sud ta. commtlàndin& off icers were: Coai. Frederlck Cubitt, Major W. J. McMurtry, Col. Deacon o! Lindsay, a regular aid time saldier; Capt. Robert Sylvester, Enniskiilen; Paymaster Thomas Christie. TI tuose days th, large drill shed in tawni was not buiit sud the. men were billeted in tae dif- ferent hotels o! ta. town until tents 'Nere procured. Th e bugler o! ta. Batt. would go ta. rounds o! ta. different hosteln- ies sud make the. hAlls resound witii th. "Reveille", which was no small job for men lodging in hateis. Strudwick was tue name o! tue bugler sud he was one o! th. best, having served many years in Malta. Tii. 45ta band, in connection witli tae military, included Wm. Andrews, leader, sud Albert Baunsail, D. Morrison sud several Otaers. Afterwards E. R. Bounsaîl was appointed Bsudmaster sud the change was soon natioed in ta, pragrarns Presented. Col. Cubitt was su officer well liked. by ta. offlcers sud men unden hlm, sud i favorite witli ail, as was Major W. J. McMurtry, who was a good rocalist sud a lover o! good band nusic. The. first Doaiion Day was centainly a red letter day I tais bung 73 years ago. The military were out briglit sud early sud paraded on the* Market, Square while ta. citizens turned out An great nurAbers ta wltness th. do- ings sud hear the volleys fired on tais special occasion. The soldiers were under the command af Capt. Gea. Manni, a tarmer, whos, people awned and âved on taat farrn now owned by Ex-Mayor Milton Elliott. Mr. Kanri, ta.eieder, was Vice-Pres- [ent a! ta. Ontario Bank and was a very sedate gentleman o! the aid sehool. Capt. Geo. Mann, us son, was well liked by tuas, nder hlm, but was amusing at Imes when he would get uis farn rcabulary mlxed up wlta uis nilitary commands. This first Confedenation Day 'as abserved by ta. people o! ta. own sud country aide by a gatu- ring an the, cammans nortu o! he Cabinet Factory by band iusic, soldier manauvers, gaies ýfail sorts under the supervision 1"Master" McTavish, ta, cele- Sated scliool teaclier. For tue ýople to witness ta. different lents a huge grandstand was rect.d and 'Nas Wel !iled by ose wiia cheered an tueir favor- ts ta victory. In ta. evening a huge bonfire ras lit on ta. Market Square and ita hundreda of fire crackers rider tue comnjiand a! "No Sur ender Big Bil Portor" every- ling went off lik, clockwork. An interesteci spectator of ta. *y's doings was Col. Smart >unted an hus big charger sud ressed An ta. uniforn io! a mucli arien date. He lived at ta. han- your collection, as weil as a iuvenir and sanie snaps. I've iiad w tennis tainigs sent on frorn mne. It may sound strange for soldier ta b, playing tennis lien there As a war on but we -e Ju st w a lt n u t c u t d , y harmn. Iigadi td 1 1- 1