Source: File: British
Military Kit.jpeg [online] see original image
at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11006139/Inventories-of-war-soldiers-kit-from-1066-to-2014.html>
[30 October 2015].
Crime in war time
never once ceased,
As new opportunities to steal goods
Of military kind - as that had occurred
With luggage and kit looting in transit
To England - belonging to officers killed.
As new opportunities to steal goods
Of military kind - as that had occurred
With luggage and kit looting in transit
To England - belonging to officers killed.
Belongings to
those who died on duty,
Left France for
relatives at home - a sad
Regular journey
that was intercepted
By those in
trust, that were employed
By the Great
Western Railway service.
In hearing at
Marylebone Police court
Stood Richard
Quartley a Railway carman,
Aged 32 of
Shirland Road, Paddington -
A vanguard,
Albert William Allen from
Southam Street
Westbourne Park age 17.
They were in
league with a licensed
Victualler,
Albert Fountain from Bury
St Edmunds’
Market Tavern aged 36.
On arrest
admittance came from Allen
That with
Quartley they opened kit bags.
The luggage
numbered about 20 - they
Took property that
had a total value
Of £200 - all
items except one, belonged
To officers
killed in action - the police
Seized the
property held by the three.
Charges were made
of theft of field
Glasses, a
revolver and items, these
Included;
blankets, shoes boots, badges,
Underclothing waterproof
coats, rugs,
Leggings,
watches, cigarette cases.
Additionally were
found binoculars
Cameras, mufflers
electric torches,
Razors, prismatic
compasses scarves
Clinometers,
jewellery, and medals
All taken in
disregard and disrespect.
While some
articles contained officers
Names, others had
names erased - amid
Those affected
Mrs Mary Drury from
Knightsbridge -
identified articles found
At the homes of
Fountain and Allen.
2nd Lieutenant
D'Albany Drew Drury
Was a prisoner of
war in Germany his
Mother recognised
some stolen items,
In receiving some
of his kit from war
Office; a
15-guinea camera was missing.
John Tippet,
medical student, confirmed
A rain-proof
field coat, with his brothers
Name; Lt. Tippet,
5th Kings Shropshire Light
Infantry, killed 19
August at Armentieres;
A room of such
property awaited identity.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Dead
Officers Kits - Systematic Loot in Transit. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 29 October. P.14. Col.2. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11955418/Daily-Telegraph-October-29-1915.html
[Accessed: 30 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 30 October 2015).
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