War Letters of a Public-School BoyJones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
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War Letters of a Public-School Boy
Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
From April 15, 1915, to July 26 in the same year Second Lieutenant H.
P. M. Jones was employed at a home port which was, and is, one of the
principal centres of supply for the British Expeditionary Force. He
was glad of the opportunity of obtaining an insight into the methods
of supplying the British Army in the field, and was impressed with the
thoroughness, efficiency, and businesslike promptitude of the Army
Service Corps. He took the earliest chance of quitting this routine
work and applying for service abroad.
_May 15th_, 1915.
You London folk seem to have been having high times with the
enemy aliens. It is quite startling and quite pleasant to see
English people roused to do things at last. I see from the photos
in the papers that the rioting was done for a great part by men
of fighting age who ought to be in the Army. It stands to reason
that it is always the dregs of the population who show their
patriotism by this sort of behaviour. Still, it is refreshing to
see someone taking some sort of action. Everybody here is cursing
the Government for its remissness with regard to Germans and
Austrians resident in this country. There are exceptions, such as
Germans who have absorbed the British spirit, but, generally
speaking, Germans, even if naturalised, must retain their
patriotic feelings towards their Fatherland, and the patriotic
German is, of course, England's enemy. Therefore he will try his
best to do us all the harm he can.
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