afr No. Free Bulletin Service at Press Headquarters, Next Y.MOA. 1909 J GEN.T.D.R. HEMMING. 1 } ALL THE NEWS \OF ALL THE CAMP DAILY BY OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ¢ ACHIET THE PHYSICAL TRAINING|AN ATHLETIC PROGRAMME le Petit § ¢ SPLENDID APPEARANCE IS PRE- | 154TH BATTALION HAS SCHED. ; SENTED BY THE MEN | ULE OF GAMES DRAWN ve Capt. Nobbs of Bayonet Fighting and | Baseball, Football and Track and ONTHE TACTICAL SCHENE THOSE MEDICALLY UNFIT A NW "RECTED" BUTTON SOLDIERS OF BARRIEFIELD ARE | SPECIAL SERVICE BATTALION r S CAMPING OUT TONIGHT | INOREASING ITS STRENGTH OTTAWA, HAS PLANS be ¥ PUISIEUX Tous a | Sep. « Vents Parade Left Barriefield Camp At 8 Supplying Great Majority Of Men i Denial Given To False Report About am. Thursday and Marched Thro-| Causes Of Rejections For Overseas Bh Dupe-Copwlete Arrangements Service--Age Presents Biggest - Problem. 'The plans for the route-march and The special service battalion is ' bivouac at Lemoine's Point for-now furnishing men for the water Thursday and Friday indicate that! picquet ordnance guard and bridge an elaborate scheme will be carried | guard--in all five N.CO's and out which shall certainly prove of| twenty-six men. 'This battalion great value in the training of the! under the able command of Capt. soldiers at Barriefleld camp. | Thorne is certainly .proving out a The 164th, 155th and 156th bat-| splendid idea and while caring for talions are engaged and on the|the men who are physically unfit march the men of these units dress| takes in recruits, men of departed in drill order with shirt sleves, haver-| battalions who are on pass and those sacks and water bottles. The bat-| being rejected by the medical board Har Things Jeff Can't Stand For talions were ordered to parade as| strong ag possible and only orderly! on the battalions. In this connection inquiries have room clerks, paymasters and pay of-| been made about the great number fice clerks, sick, light duty men( re- gimental police) with one officer in charge remained behind in camp. The members of the Infantry School and those attending the Bombing School received. orders to with their units. No tents were in- cluded in the equipment, each man carrying in his haversack his wash- ing kit, knife, fork and spoon, one pair of socks, one plate and one mug. "On the Sich man took a service dress jasket, oe blanket and one sheet all rolled to make two bundles per platopn, Two wag- ons and one motar lorry accompan- ied each battalion -and these carried the men's blankets, camp kettles, ploneer tool, twelve picks, twenty- four shovels per battalion. No field kitchens were to. be taken. The rations for Thursday were taken on the regimental ground, The fuel was supplied the Army Service Corps. Lieut. «Col. 8S. A. Thompson, Gen- oral Staff Officer, gave a lecture on Thursddy evening and gave the de- tails that were .to be carried out during the march and bivouac. \ For The Horse Artillery Ten men were sworn in yesterday for the Royal Canadian Horse Ar- tillery at their recruiting offices on Windsor street, Montreal. As fast as they have been recruited, the men for the R.C.H.A. have heen sent on to Kingston for training. Two par- by pa rties have already been sent, and it| is expected that another will go be fore the end of the week. Lieut. Guy Bowie, 154th. Battal- fon, returned on Wednesday from Ottawa, bringiig his sister, Marguerite, for a few days visit with friends in the city. parade: : wagons | while the A. D. of 8. and TP. arrang-| od to issue rations for Friday on the of men who have been rejected as "medically unfit" from the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Medical of- ficers 'give the gpifion that ih the great majority of cases |the men who apply are either too old or too young. Hundreds of cases have come where the men have deceived the medical officer about their age. Heart trouble and other defects come only as a second consideration. Some time ago it was stated that un- mentionable diseases caused the re- jection of the great majority but an emphatic denial is given this state- ment by the medical officers at the camp. DIFFERENT AT BARRIEFIELD Written By Soldiers At Camp Borden The boys from Camp Borden have written a parody that goes with the chorus music of the favorite sheet of music "Mother." It is making a big hit here and is rapidly finding place among the civilian population. The words are as follows: "B" is for the beans.we have for breakfast. "0 for the oatmeal we never see "R" is for the rind that's on the bacon "D" is for the §ust we have for tea i'. is for the eggs they feed the sergeants; "N" is for the night we had the row. Put them all together you have Bor- den. ( The place they're stowing soldiers now. A Parody What He Meant Sergeant-Major: Fall again at eleven o'clock. in here When 1 say Miss | eleven o'clock I don't mean five min- | utes past eleven; 1 mean five minutes | to. Tr FOR PRESIDENT. JEFF I'LL JELL You wy L WANT TO BE NOMINATED Lom For Artillery At The Camp--Ot- tawa Is Adopting Plan So Success- ful In Toronto. Lieut. O'Leary, recruiting for the 73rd Battery in Ottawa, is certainly getting results and is bringing in a couple of dozen men every week. On Tuesday he arrived with thirteen, and seven were taken on the strength of the 73rd the remainder going to the Ammunition Column which needs them more. Lieut. O'Leary is arranging to have a issue of "Tried and Reject- ed'* buttons for those who apply and are rejected through some slight medical defect. This plan that has proved to be so successful in Toronto should have been started in Ottawa long ago, but it remained for the artillery recruiting officer to put it through. The design is a neat one and should be of great value in showing up those who are backward about enlisting. The Civil Service at Ottawa has contributed a great majority of the men to not only the 73rd Battery but to other units of the artillery Brigade at Barriefild camp. The men of these departments have been pressed, to enlist and the plan has proved to be successful. Lieut. O'Leary has also been of | great assistance in supplying men as he received a training as a recruit- ing officer while sergeant under Capt. Stothers, and is now able to employ methods that bring results. Lieut.-Col, A. G. F. MacDonald, commanding the 154th Battalion, has received a cable from his son, Lieut. Fraser MacDonald, who went overseas with the 77th that he has proceeded to the front with the 50th Battalion. The Divine service on Sunday morning at the camp will be con- ducted as usual at 9 am. Capt. W. F. Fitzgerald will be in charge and Capt. Hagar and Capt. Dodds will officiate the latter taking the sermon. The signallers of the 207th, 235th and' 240th attending the School of Signalling have been attached to the Ammunition Column of the Depot Artillery Brigade for rations and dis- cipline. 1 Capt. Crockers, 154th Battalion, left on Thursday for Ottawa and will visit Montreal and Cornwall before the expiration of his leave. The examinations in wireless will be conducted at the camp on Friday quartermaster & 4 "to or E A BOISSEL LR 5 i NF LU » distriet. reaux or High Wood and a poi MONTAUBAN 13% -Sevle in Migs 2 ALLIED SUCCESSES IN SOMME REGION. Shaded areas represent la test Allied gains in the Somme The British recently gained ground between Fou- \ / Saneny UILLEMONT * , nt west of Pozieres. Also at Guillemont, the French advanced to Hill #39. ~ Camp Notes A bh Lieut. W. R. Skey, artillery, left on Wednesday for Muskoka on six days' leave. Capt. Hicks, A.M.C., has returned from Regina, Sask., where he was visiting his relatives. Capt. Grierson, commanding the 75th Battery, is on duty at the camp and is proving of great value to the athletic committee, being an enthus- iastic baseball artist. The 73rd Battery has a string quartette who gave an acceptable programme in the Military Y.M.C.A., and prove of value in other enter- tainments. The School of Machine Gunnery is constantly working on the ranges and sharp reports as the bullets leave the gun for the targets make familiar music in the 156th Battal- fon lines. - PECAUSE THIS HAS ONLY PRODUCED THREE GReAT MeN , . « - by an official of the Departnient of Naval Service. » pr COUNTRY Pte. A. D: McKillop, transferred YES. Two uF THEM ARE WASHING ToN AND | uncon) RY from the 207th to the 8. 8. Battalion, has been promoted to the rank of corporal. will be remembered that he joined to avenge the death of his brother who was killed at the front. Pte. H. J. Hughes had been detail- ed as bugler in the Special Service Battalion. .. { Sergt. "Shorty" Grant, S: S. Bat- talion, will not accept Capt. R. B. MacConnell's offer to go to Ottawa oh the Chief Recruiting Officer's staff. A splendid program. was given on Tuesday evening by the men of the 154th Battalion in the big tent of that unit. . Only twenty-seven 164th Battalion are furlough. men , of the Pté. A. Leserance, 154th Battalion, is taking an armourer's course at Quebec. Rev. G. F. Assiber retyrned to London after giving several addres- ses at the Y tent. now on farm | | Belleville. [overseas with the {draft and later transferred to the {39th Battalion, ithrough an attack Physical Training Staff, Ottawa, Was Interested Camp Spectator On Wednesday Morning: The soldiers drilling at Barriefield camp present a splendid sight as they go.through their physical train- ing exercises on the grounds in front of headquarters. .Until 10.15 am, daily, all of the drill is conducted on the upper parade ground and the mass of khaki-clad men going thro- ugh the various movements presents an inspiring sight. It is one of the best that the camp presents and is watched with interest and curiosity by all visitors to the camp who hap- pen to come at that time. One of the inspectors of the move- ments on Wednesday morning was Capt. Nobbs, of the headquarters staff, who is making a tour of in- spection of the camps to report on the progress being made in ysical training and bayonet fighting. Lieut. James Bews, who is in charge of this branch at the camp, however is not in fear of any bad reports, as the work at Barriefield is leading among all throughout Canada, due to the: nterest of the .men and the ability f the instructors. 136th Has Best Band? The 146th Battalion has the best brass band at Barriefield camp. The fact is admitted particularly as the 155th Bandsmen have all been inocu- lated and there are no competitors. These two bands hqwever, are evenly matched and the competition be- tween them gives splendid results to each which vie in winning the ap- proval of those in command as to their 'relative merits Sergt. Charles Gibson, W.0., who was overseas with the 2nd Battalion was at the camp on Thursday after- noon. He will report to Lieut.-Col. M. K. Adams, commanding the 155th Battalion, to take a commission in that unit. Sergt. Gibson was in the Spanish-American war, fought the Mexicans in Mexico, the South Africa and finally the Hur in France, and was wounded in each campaign. 'His home is in who went Battalion Smith, Madoc, 69th Lieut. was in camp on visiting friends in the He was returned of rheumatism Wednesday 156th Battalion. in England. Boers . in' Field Events Planned--Champlons to Receive Photographs -- Great Interest Taken by Men. A series of athletic events for the men ol drawn up and it is planned that games will continue until the middle of September and the championship then. decided. There are baseball, football and track and field sports. The baseball games are of seven in- nings, though five innings games are allowable. Football is played for two thirty minute halves. The track and field events include 100. yard dash, running broad jump, shot put and high jump. Champions in the | varidus events are to receive photo- graphs. The programme is as follows: Baseball August 10th. "A" Co. versus "B" Company. August 12th. Company. August 17th. above play off, "c" Co. versus "D" Winners of the August 11th. "B" Co. versus "pr Company. 2 Track and Field Sports August 9th. "A" Co. versus "B" Company. F "C" Co. versus "D* August 14th, Company. Winners of above August 19th. play off. rm CAMP NOTICE ! Men of Barriefield Whig Joh The woll Waix riefield, mext Y, - WELL, MODES TV FORBIDS TWAT IT MENTION THE THIRD the 154th Battalion has been, =