It was a queer old fashioned town

TCD MS 10853 folio 34 recto

TCD MS 10853 folio 34 recto

[1914]
Recruits Test.           Trained Standard.

100 yds.  4” group    4 “ group.
200   yds.  1 B. 4. I.   1,B, 2 I. 3 M, 2 0.
200 yds. 3 B. 2. I.      1 I, 3M. 1. O.
300 yds.           Disappearing Target.
300 yds.                       1 I, 4 M.
500 yds. 3 B. 2. I.

Sergeant Marshall told me one day coming from the range he would take me with him if ever he went out sniping.  He did – but that’s another and tragic incident which I will relate when I come to it.  Those were happy days at Sandwich.  The queer old fashioned town, the comfortable little cafe, narrow winding streets, the marches to and from the ranges along that straight coast road when we all sang the songs we knew, & the genuine good fellowship of the boys many of whom have now fallen, will live for ever in my memory.  We had some good football there, and one or two good matches with other companies, and old F Company did