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The Outpost Vol 1 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

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82 THE OUTPOST.<br />

OUR LETTER BOX.<br />

To THE EDITOR OF "THE OUTPOST."<br />

SIR,<br />

<strong>The</strong> following appeal from a Company<br />

Sergt.-Major of the King's o..,n Scottish<br />

Borderers has been forwarded to me by Mr.<br />

\Vm. Jones, Secretary to the Insurance<br />

Committee for the Burgh of Glasgow, 59 Bell<br />

Street, City, asking me to do the best I can.<br />

If members of the Battalion or their friends can<br />

assist, please communicate with Mr. Jones<br />

direct. I personally know Coy. Sergt.-Major<br />

Fitzgerald, and any articles sent will be greatly<br />

appreciated by him and his interned companions<br />

in arms.<br />

R. S.-M. KELLY.<br />

[COpy.]<br />

My address is-<br />

No. 5741, Coy. Sergt.-Major Fitzgerald,<br />

2 K.O. Scottish Borderers,<br />

Hut 10/8.<br />

GEFANGENEN-LAGER DOEBERITZ,<br />

DEUTSCHLAND, 3/3/15.<br />

DEAR WILL,<br />

I am writing to let you know that we<br />

are getting on all right, and to ask you to<br />

interest yourself on behalf of our needy ones.<br />

Will it be asking too much of you to collect<br />

any part-worn underclothing (shirts, vests,<br />

pants, etc.). that any friends may care to give,<br />

and send them in bundles addressed to me.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y will be extremely useful, when the warm<br />

weather comes, as a change of underclothing. I<br />

am all right myself. but there are some of us<br />

here who get nothing from home and have to<br />

depend on the kindness of others. Packets of<br />

tobacco, etc., would also be very useful.<br />

Best wishes to all from<br />

(Signed) NED.<br />

SIR,<br />

Members of the Battalion will soon be<br />

turning their thoughts from football to cricket,<br />

and here, a.

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