Thursday, 9 July 2015

Poem ~ Botanic Rifles - Friday, 9 July 1915


Source: File: The Approved Volunteer Training Corps uniforms, published in February 1915.jpg, The Original can be seen at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Training_Corps_%28World_War_I%29 
[Accessed:  9 July 2015]

A pleasant setting for army
Training, arranged about Regents
Park and within the Royal
Botanic Gardens.

Advertised requests for
Recruits for men, unable to join
Regular army  - for what
Reason is not said.

Such volunteers would be
Called The Royal Botanic Society
Training Corps - will have
Own rifle range

At the headquarters. these
Botanic soldiers would be trained
As marksmen of expertise,
For home defences.

Anyone wishing to join
Botanic Training Corps, was asked
To apply to the quartermaster
At Regents Park.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon., 1915. No title. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 9 July. P.3. Col.4. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721649/Daily-Telegraph-July-9-1915.html [Accessed: 9 July 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 9 July 2015). 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721649/Daily-Telegraph-July-9-1915.html


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