Readers of the Spectator will, we are sure, be delighted
to hear that one of the members of the Spectator Experimental Company, now Captain Eric Santer (King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry), has received the French croix de guerre. This signal honour was earned by the "ex-Spectator lad" on July 1st, 1916, in the battle of the Somme. Taken as a whole, the war record of the Spectator Company has been extraordinarily good. Not only was the lesson which the Company as a unit gave to the country of great practical value, but the individuals have shown themselves fully worthy of the immense amount of time and trouble expended on their training by Colonel Pollock, who is still busy training soldiers, and Lieutenant Walsh, now a Colonel commanding a battalion at the front, and the able sergeant-instructors who worked under them. The men of the Company have shown themselves worthy of the confidence and of the large sums contributed by the readers of the Spectator in order that a sporting experiment might be carried out on a firm basis.
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