Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-06
BLUE BLOOD BRITONS
 ABANDON EASY LIFE
 FOR WAR HAROSHIPS
Honorable Artillery Company Of London Known Formerly As Social Organization Is Now At The Front In France

LONDON, July 55-The Honorable . Artillery Company of London, which, . like its counterpart and relative in Boston, is one of the oldest and most aristocrauc military organizations in existence. now has in the field an or ganization which includes hundreds of members of the wealthiest and most aristocratic families In England They have proved their merit and their democracy on countless occasions since they went Co France early in the war.
 An observer at British headquarters sends the following account of a visit to the "H. A. C." on a day whcu they were resting in the reserve lines.
 Beyond the last farmhouse,' he writes. 'I came upon a field about the size of Fadison Square in New York. filled with precise rows of bare head ed. half dressed soldiers. sitting on their blankets like Mohammedans at prayer enjoying the baking sun.
 That's the H. A. e. said my guide, and vanished.
 NONk 0l tue AHhANl Nbit aAA ANNiA.t y men looked up from their medjtatio1s as l walked between them. Some wore trousers and no shirt, others var jed the picture by wearing shirt and 10 trousers. All were evidently very tired and very lazy. Some were sew ing on buttons or mending damaged sections of their attire Others had their garments thrown across their knees inside out and were inspecting them inch by inch, gmyCly and meth odically. for those unwelcome little visitors which are one Of the greatest bane of trench warfare. ] had an i'm pression that l was intruding upon a solemn and not unimp0taut ceremoEg There was absolute silence
 How many friends of the famou. regiment wound have recognized tine cropped, unshaven assemblage sitting on army blankets in that COW pasture They had nothing in common witi the spic and span young gentlemen who used to appear as glitteriug guar, of honor at the London Guildhall anC were generally voted the smartes volunteer foot soldiers in the world They looked in fact. as hard and un compromising a set of ruuiana a could be found anywhere in the arei of the war Hard as nails. they weu calm of eye, stunning them5elyes alte week of careful killing as thouEI the punishment of Germans had al ways been their business
 'I walked up and down between tl rows. trying to adjust my mental p.. ture of the Honorable Artillery Com pany. Here was a wealthy young gen ueman from the city sitting in hi shirt with his legs barred to the mir day breeze, thoghtfully sewing bu ton on his trousers He prichcd li finger and swore softly. Next to LiI was g. famous Cambridge scholar wea ing eyeglasses and trousers. His gre shirt was spread out in the suUshin and he regarded it somewhat moros' ly.
 "The silence was very striking
 had passed other battalions mot frol the trenches-in billets nearby, an the cheerful chatter of the men coul be heard on all sides. Here the stl ness was only broken by the sound bagpipes from the next village and ti final preIuncheon delivery of Germa shells. Aeroplanes, with the tri-cC ored bulls-eye of the Allies paintt on the underside of their wings, wei humming overhead, with enemy shra neI strewing great white roses in the