New Britain herald., 1917-11-07
SOMME AND YPRES
 SURVIVORS HERE
British Recruiting Detail Appeals
 for Recruits in New Britain
ALL WE'RE INCAPACITATED

Speakers at Landers, Frary & Clark Gates Urge Fellow Countrymen to Respond to Call and Help Drive Hun to Own Country.
 Four battle scared veterans of some of the f1ercest fighting along the Vest ern front in France, in the United States as a recruiting detail from the British war office, conducted rally at the Center street gate of the Land- CTS, Fray & Clark factory this noon, urging any and all British subjects In New Britain to rally to the Union Jack and not wait for draft arrange l ments now under way by which aliens l may be forced to join either their na- l tive army or the American forces. The 1 speakers received an enthusiastic vel come from the crowd.
 These men have been conducting a six weeks campaign in Hartford and vicinity and have succeeded in en- listing 25O British subjects. Their work Is conducted along definite lines laid down by the British war office and with the approval of the United States war department None but un- naturalized British subjects will be l accepted for enlistment.
 All Have Been Wounded.
 The recruiting quartet arrived in New Britain about Il o'clock and went at once to Mayor Quigley's of-
 flee where they were introduced to several prominent men and later talk en to the New Britain club for lun- chpnn Trhnco n or%~v r1S ing the Flying Squad No. of the British Recruiting Mission were Lieutenant c. J. White, Captain K. E. Milan, Lieutenant Pierre Chevalier and Sergeant A. Holmes. Lieutenant White enlisted in the British army at the age of 17 years and after serv- ing for year on the Western front, where he was wounded at the Battle of the Somme, he was relieved tenn porarily of active duty and sent here with recruiting detail. He is son of General W. A. White who is in su- preme command of the British Re- cruiting Mission in the United States.
 Captain Milan is @ member of the Royal Army Medical corps. and. al- though 8 Canadian by birth, he went to England and enlisted soon after the war began. He was wounded at tho
 
 awarded the Military Cross for neri- torious service in that battle. Just what he did to earn this distinction 1 Captain Milan modestly refuses to disclose. Ut doesn't matter one bit, he replied evasively to a pointed l question. Even his comrades who are with him did not know what feat he had accomplished to, earn this dcc- oration.
 Lieutenant Cheva1ier. a French Canadian and a native of Montreal,
 enlisted early in the war with the l 22nd Canadian Overseas Battalion
 He was in the thick of the battle of
 Ypres and was with the Canadian
 forces that held the extreme end of
 the salient when the Germans first
 used their gas bombs. He was also
 in the Battle of the Somme and has
 been so badly wounded that the med
 ical authorities have temporarily dis
 qualified him from further active
 duty. He says he expects to return
 as soon as his health permits.
 Sergeant Holmes went across with
 the first contingent of Canadian sol
 diers and was >very seriously wound
 ed at the Battle of Ypres.
 British Soldiers Talk.
 | Cs A. 00dIA0, V1CC p1CS4u0AAL OA AAclD ders, Frary & Clark, introduced as
 the first noon-day speaker Lieuten-
 ant White. After explaining the pur-
 poses of the recruiting mission in this
 country Lieutenant White took oc-
 casion to pay a high tribute to the
 patriotism of New Britain's youth
 "A remarkably fine showing" is what
 he termed the city's honor roll O1 : about 200 men in the service. Ex blaming how the men work in the
 battleflelds Lieutenant White declared
 that for every man in the front line trenches there must be eight behind the lines to prepare his food, clothes
 equipment, etc. Therefore, he said < the British army, which is hart pressed for men, is enlisting all me1
 between the ages of IS and 65 years The men between the ags of 40 ant T. 55 are not wanted for active trenc1 2 work, he explained, but are needed a behind the lines as mechanics. car s penters, >repair men and tradesmen il
 general. 'It takes about 130 skilled n men to keep single airplane work , ing every day." he said. Referrin d to the many brave Britishers who di, " leave this country and go to war a IF the beginning, Lieutenant White pail "a a tribute to 8 local man named Will l. Hams who, he said, was wounded an is is now blind in one eye as result J. Furthermore, Lieutenant White de
 clared that no British subject has an
 excuse for not enlisting because ~th
 government has made arrangement
 to care for their wives or dependent 9s and the American Red Cross has als r. agreed to give necessary aid. "Wh of should not the British subject in thi n country go to war? Why should h e stay back and take the good jobs lei l. by the brave American boys who ar n rushing to the colors? He has Il 1 I Il.l,-n l,.:l.