Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Sep 1916, p. 9

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* 12 PAGES i YEAR 83, NO. Ysa THE SOLDERS WORK GOOD GODFATHER TOTH SUCH WORK- AS NIGHT OPERA. Ww. C. } TIONS SHOW THEIR ABILITY. Headquarters is Agreeably Surprised By the Wonderful Condition That The Men Are In, The first night operations for the soldiers of Barriefield Camp have been completed and are considered A great success, The plan as worked out on » Wednesday night proved to be highly satisfactory to Brig.-Gen. T. D. R. Hemming, Camp Conmimandant, To be called out of bed, tg dress and march fourteen miles and lose what promised to be a nice night's sleep, is.certainly not what men are usking for but nevertheless there is that spirit of the British subject in the hearts of the soldiers of Barrie field that such work is np. hardship It was not a case of plodding on but of leading everyone else in the -par- ade. 'The 154th Battalion pipe band was in the lead on the march Wednesday night. That stirring music of the pipes set even the feet of the headquarters staff horses mov- ing fastér. The 154th Battalion is pretty well made up of men from the Gaelic country and it takes nothing but the skill of the pipes to make them march or move in any way They marched and set a pace so fast that Gen, Hemming had to slow ft down on several occasions, Behind was the 156th Battalion led by its fine band, The Belleville and dis- trict hoys were not to be outdone hy any Scotchmen and they followed In fact-the boys under Lieut.-Col. M. K. Adams' command followed so closely that they had to be checked to keep a steady pace. It was al- most a race between the two units and no one could say which was the better for both were excellent, It was certainly encouraging fe hear the soldierscshout and sing as they passed along and marching in a way that dispelled any suggestion of being tired after their long hike and the previous day's work. There is only one thing that ean be said about the soldiers at Barrie- field. They have advanced faster than the laid-down syllabus of train- ing for troops and are now in splen- did condition, The camp has been responsible for the directing of the energy of the boys and the spirit be hind that energy has been the cause 'of the wonderful result. The Headquarters Staff is more than pleased with the condition of the men as shown by their work on the night march around Kingston Mills. Moving pictures will be shown the soldiers in the Y. M. C. A. tent on Friday evening. ing to Tete de Pont Barracks. ~ \ GL SECOND SECTION "Whig Phone * \ BARRIEFIELD CAMP / No. 1909 Free Bulletin Service at 'Press Headquarters, Next Fi & : i 'ITSFIELD, MONTREALER, DIRECTS RECRUITING. Fstablished Montreal | He Has Agency. Which Brought in Thirty: | nine Men Last Week, "0" 'Battery, R.C.H.A., has a fairy god-father who is willing to spend thousands. of dollars in time and money to keep a flow of recruits com- | He | is W. C. Pitsfield, a director of the Royal Securities Corporation of Mon- treal. Mr. Pitsfield is an ardent Britisher and wants to do his bit to] the limit. last winter he took a | course at the Royal School of Artil-| lerv and qualified as an artillery of-) ficer. The death of his father made | him withdraw his application for | overseas but since then he has been | wag at the front for a number doing a wonderful work, | His. first step was to establish 'a | recruiting office in Montreal and in | the seven weeks since that office was | opened there have been 179 recruits enlisted for service overseas with the! R.C. H. A. There has been hardly a train from Montreal on which some | number of new men don't arrive and every one is an ideal maa for the | work. The agency has been fortunate in being able to keep a very high ideal for the men who enlist and the re- sult has been a collection of stu-| dents, brokers, professional men of | every class and some of the most in- | telligent gentlemen of Montreal. Mr. Pitsfield has now decided that Toronto offers a good opportunity if recruiting is pushed vigorofisly and will in the near future open an office in the Queen City. If it is as sue- cossffil as the one in Montreal Mr. Pitsfield will 'twice over deserve the sincerest thanks of the country fo his personal efforts in making men see their ty, Capt Finlaysohn, Capt. Lumb, Capt. Houston and' Capt. MacGregor were medical officers on the route | march of the troops to Kingston Mills on Wednesday night. Two of the battalion medical officers were on leave and two from Queen's Field Ambulante Corps took their places. #1 Col. Bedell. | Tuttle's Hil Capts, Lumb and MacGregor went with the ambulance. 3 \ Citizens generally are asking that, © the headquarters staff of the camp have a short route march of the sol- diers through the city in the near future so that the citizens may see] what a fine body of men Barriefield camp contains, It is hbped that the request will be complied with in view of the énterest on the part of the; civil population : . The artillery brigade is leaving the city on Friday evening for Peta-| wawa. i Std ERCHA|OFFCERS AND PRIVATES | WHO HAVE JUST SEEN ACTIVE SERVICE WERE AT CAMP. r-- Dental Officer at Salonika, Infantry Officer of 1st Canadians and a Fireman in the Navy Came on Thursday. Capt. H. Alfred, Canadian Army Dental Corps, was a visitor at Bars] riefield Camp on Thursday after- noon, visiting Major 'R. D. Ponton, of the headquarters staff. Capt. Al-| fred was the dental officer with No. 1 Stationary Hospital at Salonika, land has lately returned from Eng- laid. His home is in Belleville. | Capt. Alfred has leave of absence for| only a month. | Major Coghill and Major Brupee, | 207th Battalion, were also visitors at Barriefield Camp. Major Coghill of months with the 1st Canadian Bat- talion, and returned a short time ago to take over duties with the Ot- tawa Battalion. , A. third man who has been "through the mill" to arrive at the camp on Thursday was Leon Sam- mut, 'who enlisted in the 156th Bat- talion." Pte. Sammut is a short, thick-set, dark-eyed man who could be detected instantly as a foreigner. His address is Malta, and he has al- ready had eighteen months with the Imperial navy as a fireman. After serving for some time in the Darda- nelles, Pte. Sammut obtained his honorable discharge at Buenos Ayres, Argentine -Republic, South America. He had been a firemen on H. M. 8. Colne,-bhut--decided that he had had enough of the war. The fastination proved too much for him after a short time and he gradually worked his way to Canada, and on Thursday was sworn in by Lieut.- jagged rocks placed on at the suggestion of a Whig correspondent proved incon- venient for the soldiers on their night march of Wednesday. A light layer on top would have greatly im- proved . matters. ' Tete de Pont Barracks never look- ed better than at present. Sergt.- Major Akerley hag been keeping the prisoners busy, and the barracks now has a fine clean appearance. The Sunred French to t men attending the School of Spfaiine. dealing with the ordinary] remarks that are abso- Jutely essential to strangers in France. . Lieut. Gill left on Friday morning for Petawawa to join the R. C. H. A. and take overseas a draft of 100 men. . 'Major Patterson, paymaster 156th Battalion, left on Thu y for Broekville., 5 Lieut=-Lanos is giving lectures on| ~ od 0 SYN alll ficer_Commang = = Oe GEN.T.D.R. HEMMING SS - Pe MN CONSTANT SHIFTING. of Different Units Are Moving Every Day. There i8 always a constant move- | ment of the soldiers at the camp with | enlistments, discharges and transfers | continually taking place. It has been said that no great work can be started and completed by the same men, and it seems true. A glance at what is called "Part 2 Orders" shows this movement. In Wednesday's orders for the camp there were sixteén men taken on the various units and fifteen men struck off the strength. Men | Major R. D. Ponton, headquarters staff, gave an address on '"Comrade- ship" to those in attendance-at the School of Signalling on Wednesday. ' ments. sam HT i 1 DOMINION SECUR RI 1 iit NN . U 8 ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE CAMP DAILY by OUR SPECIAL - "REPRESENTATIVE & WILL TOUR FOR REGRUITS| TWO OFFICERS OF THE 155th BATT. TO GIVE EXHIBITIONS Taking M ine Gun Section They Will Giw mstrations, of Ma- chine Gun and Bayonet Fighting Work to Enlist Recruits, Now that the'!School of Machine Gunnery has _ been discontinued, Lieut. McGie is) able to+«devote more time to the trphing of the machine gun section of the 155th Battalion as a unit, Through careful choosing and the support of the various company com- manders in allowing him the best men, Lieut. McGie has now thirty start with the-- Canadian War Loan If you 'are a bond investor, you appreciate the simplicity of "buying, of holding, or of selling bonds and debentures, and the general convenience of having your funds so placed. If you are not as yet a bond investor, THE NEW CANA- DIAN LOAN --Canada's premier security--offers you the-oppor- tunity to acquire the desired knowledge of this form of investment. very efficient soldiers in his section. There is now a plan being con- sidered that Lieut. Allen, in charge of the bayonet fighting and physical training of the battalion, and Lieut. McGie, commanding the machine gun section, should do a little re- cruiting with the men. If the pres- ent plans are passed as recommend- ed these two officers with the ma- chine gun section will visit every fair in Hastings and Prince Edward counties. They will take machine guns, etc., and give exhibitions of what is done in the army, and at the close of each exhibition a call will be made for recruits. It should cer- tainly be a most successful plan. THe men of the 156th Battalion are now being issued with clasp knives and First Aid books. es . * + BAYONET WORK FXHIBITION + -- * At the close of every school + of Bayonet Fighting and Physic- + al training it is customary to draw up all the troops in the camp and give an exhibition of what has: been taught at the school. This will be done prob ably on "Thursday of next week on the main parade grounds. 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