Map of London
Defences 1915 - by Jamie. See original at:
http://www.ww1homedefence.webeden.co.uk/london-aa-defence-
An ebook of 'The Defence of London' can be found at:
http://www.ww1homedefence.webeden.co.uk/london-aa-defence-
An ebook of 'The Defence of London' can be found at:
https://archive.org/details/defenceoflondon100rawluoft
As security on home front
Continued with alertness
To suspicious activity - one
Incident occurred to involve
A Belgium and a Gun Station.
On a Saturday, dated 18
September 1915, a young
Bank clerk, took a trip out
From his London lodgings -
At the Morley Hotel, Strand.
Later arriving at a military
Installation, somewhere
In the vicinity of London -
George Waltjens walked,
On the Saturday afternoon.
Among the Royal Marine
Artillery Crew on duty,
Gunner Dicks observed
The civilian youth lift up
A camera, to take a photo.
With his obvious subject
As the Gun Station, Dicks
Alerted a sentry, who took
Immediate action, to arrest
Young George Waltjens.
Under arrest, the clerk
Was conveyed to civil
Police - there followed
His court appearance,
At Bow Street Station.
With the only evidence
Given by Gunner Dicks,
The charge was taking
A photo without getting
Any naval permission.
Magistrate Mr Hopkins
Took the matter seriously.
Walter spoke in broken
English; he did not realise
He had done any wrong.
Mr Hopkins interrupted
Him to say that this would
Not do - with result that
Young George Waltjens,
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Gun
Station Photographs. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 21 September. P.10. Col.6.
Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11869525/Daily-Telegraph-September-21-1915.html
[Accessed: 21 September
2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 21 September 2015).
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