Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: You see that Ginger and Chugt have also been taken for Kitchener's Army ? y)th August, 1914. My Dear Mother, I'm glad TomJ feels better, and am very glad that he has gone with Maurice Campbell §. We have had a quiet day and are getting ready for a heavy week. There are crowds of cavalry about the camping ground now, on their way through to Egypt, it is believed, to release the garrison there, and some of the Hon. Artillery Company's batteries. Still we are not yet very crowded. There was Church Parade this morning, with a sermon from the Vice-Chancellor, who came over specially for that purpose.Make the most of your last few days (at Nevin). There are no difficulties about my room (at Oxford) and there will be no need for you to move anything, though I am much obliged for your offer. The piano is being sent back. G. H. Gater, Commoner of New College, 1905 — 1909, Lieut. -Colonel commanding a Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, D.S.O. t G. L. Cheesman, Fellow of New College, Lieut, in the Hampshire Regiment, killed in action, August loth, ) His younger brother. § Lieut. J. M. H. Campbell, R.A.M.C. Formerly Scholar of New College. Love from Arthur. September, 1914. My Dear Murray, It was a great pleasure to get your letter. I have been a week here, which feels more like a month. My letters are all kept back and yours was the first word almost that I've had from the civilised world for some time. No, I'm not insulted by your supposing the Scottish Borderers to be a more famous regiment than my own. The Scotch are an overrated nation anyway. What I really envy Denniston is his position. Aldershot is moorland or commons, I suppose. This is a marsh by the Thames, intersected by canals, protected by a dyke that blocks the view of the river (tho...