The Outpost Vol 1 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers
The Outpost Vol 1 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers
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.