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ARMISTICE DAY IN THE FRONT LINE

WHEN AN ARTILLERY BRIGADE BILLETED IN CHATEAU

AND CONVENT

PEACE AFTER THE GREAT STORM

BY LT.COL. H. L. MURROW, D.S.O.

November 11th, 1918, the day, who was Adjutant to the Artillery that was to besome famous, dawned Brigade which the writer command at first dull and then later on in the ed. morning the sun broke through the clouds.

The fifth army, to which my Artillery Brigade belonged, cover od a part of a line running. E1st and West of tho Main Old Lille Napoleonic Road between Tourney, Ath Brussels,

MASS AND A TE DEUM

Deum afterwards. When this was over we were invited by the Priest and Mother Superior to coma and partake of food. The former do- THE LAST PHASE parted and shortly returned with his arms folded under his cossack, the During

days preceding but he quickly revealed two bottles the German machine of wine covered with, mud, which Armistice, gunners had given considerable he had buried in the garden, eay trouble and bold up any rapid ing "Fiola man columel j'ai en- advanco.. At the last minute they care de vin."

would throw away their uniforms In the evening the nuns arrang. and put on peasant clothing toed n sort of déle, but somehow avoid detection.

Thomas Atkins did not come up

A fortnight before my brigade The day before Armistice, wa to scratch. The fact of the matter had billetted at the famous Chateau spent bringing the guns along the was we were all too tired and the

We road just North of Tournai. The da Brigode, East of Lille

was beginning to strain found the Comte de Brigode there, road had been heavily shelled, and itself and the reaction setting in he had been there right through mined, and overy conceivable booby

Very different to the orgy that

the war bearing himself with great! trap had been laid by the retiring went on in London that night.

courage and giving the invaders 7.18 all the trouble he possibly could. He received the British with open arms, and with tears of joy in his eyes. He suggested that we should dine with him but unfortunately, he said, he was short of food. This dispute was quickly settled and the Comto dined with us, the first time

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Germans.

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During the night of the 10th we In the meantime relensed re- fugees from the German lines were fortunate in billeting Sacré Coeur Convent which con- started coming down the Brussels- fortably held the whole brigade. Lille Road, to the Northern French They came The Mother Superior and the industrial areas.

uns had been thera right through literally in a continuous stream,

the road was packed, with every the War.

About 0 p.m. orders were received conceivable transport from peram- in his life, as he expressed it, that that no firing was to take place bulators, carts drawn by dogs, all struggling ho had over been a guest of any-after 11 am, the following day. to farm wagons, body's in his own chateau. The The Forward Observation Officer along, and quito impossible to interesting part of this story, reported that at 11.10am. some pass. So bad was the stream that

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particularly to the writer, is that the seventy Gormans tried to sur rations to the troops: had to be Duke of Wellington, a few nights render to him, but he politoly de- brought up cross-country on pack after the Battle of Waterloo, dur-clined, telling them to walk back horses. This perhaps was one of

the saddest sights of the War, ing the purauit after Napoleon; to Germany.

虚 slept at this same chateau. The

We remained in that billet. for

to leave, as it had been some

writer took great pains to sleep A LINK WITH WELLINGTON ̧ only a week one and all were sorry in the same room that the Iron Duke had occupied, much to the digust of Captain: R. A. Hall (now the British vice-Consul in Canton)

MEANS

At about 11.00 am, there were years since we had been treated so great things doing in the Convent. well, every care being taken of us

a To by those kind-hearted nuns. We all attended Mass and

WHAT POPPY DAY in the War, Poppy Day was not sympathy and support of all British much more than a very hopeful, people, irrespective of class, re experiment.

ligion or politics All are at one when it concerns Poppy Day, which is a common endeavour to help those who suffered in a common. cause.

THE BRITISH PUBLICS STEADY SUPPORT

APPEAL TO BRITONS OVERSEAS

With great anxiety the result was awaited, for the Legion was ready with a fine organisation for assist ing necessitous ex-Service men and their dependants, but funds were lacking and there was a host of men and their families who badly needed help.

is

Poppy Day the medium through which the individual ha the opportunity to liquidate his share of the Debt of Honour,' and in the following pages are notes of There was no shadow of doubt na to the worthiness of the Appeal general interest regarding this which the lato Lord Haig inau- great ammual appeal, which illus Poppy Day (1931) report reminds urated. The only doubt was just trate the world wide appeal of what us in its opening: sentence:

how it would be received by the is perhaps to greatest co-operative Over four and a half million British public, for like a play or a voluntary ellort this generation has

known pounds in eleven years! That is book presented to the public for

in 1921.

...

the record of Poppy Day the first time success or failure-Poppy Day Total, Year by Year.

If proof wore needed of public | depends upon the public.

Below, are given its yearly totals confidence in this annual Appeal, Poppy Day might eadily have for Poppy Day since its inception and in the great beneficent failed at the very outact; but no, organisation, the British Legion, it gripped the imagination, plucked which it finances, surely this at the heartstrings of the normally marvellous total supplies it. phlegmatio British public, and to

Poppy Day is real romance day stands accepted as one of our of high figures and voluntary foremost Bribal institutions, an endeavour.

institution however which, to quote leading morning, paper, we must needs take rather sadly

It is a movement which has the

In 1921, when people were first naked to buy and wear Poppies in remembrance of the man who fel!

It should be explained that in Scotland the British Legion 8 an autonomous body. For that reason, Toppy Day there is organised in- “:: dependently, mas matana madade aad

The totals in the left hand column are those for England, Ireland, Wales and Overseas, the Scottish (Continued on Page 1)

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