Feature Letter of August 9th, 2025
Gilroy, Wilbert H.
We have rain every day. It never misses once and if we have anything special on, such as a review, well it just simply pours. I must tell you about our review last Wednesday. We had been preparing for it for some time. The men were all fussed up, clothes pressed and brushed, rifles cleaned and shining, and all things in readiness. But Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock it started to rain. Our Brigade had to march about 4 miles to the reviewing point. The inspection was by Mr Bonar Law, assisted by Major General Sam Hughes. It was held at the Canadian Hospital near Dibgate, our old stamping grounds. As usual the men had to wait about two hours for the inspection. All the while it rained and poured, and the poor chaps looked like drowned rats. When they were not standing at attention they romped around in front of the lines and played leap frog and such games, to keep from catching cold.
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