THE "SPECTATOR" EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY–.A HAPPY RESULT.
[To TH1 EDITOR OP THR "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I think your readers may like to see an extract from a letter written by a member of the Spectator Experimental Company who bas lately become a Captain in one of the battalions of the new Army.—I am, Sir, &c., V.
"Thank you so much for your kind letter andtn- lations. I think I have been awfully lucky, and only hocpoenr:hall be able to act up to it. I am the youngest Captain in the regi- ment. Have been made second in command of '13' Company, and paraded with them for the first time to-day. I was awfully sorry to leave my old Company D, as I had got to know the men and really liked them awfully. It was like start- ing all over again, and I felt so strange and am so glad my first day is over. Feel more confident now, and will do my best to finish a Major. Does not my promotion go to prove the value of six months' training when fellows are about nineteen years of age? All I know I learnt daring that six months in the Spectator Com- pany, and I put my success down to the splendid teaching of Colonel Pollock. If this country had only listened to what Mr. St. Los Strachey said in 1906 what a difference it would make now. All the men here are getting on splendidly, and are very fit considering the bad weather and heaps of mud. They have not been equipped yet, I am sorry to say, but they do not 'grouse' much."
[We recall the writer of the letter as one of the most alert and diligent members of a company where all were alert and diligent. We are delighted, but not surprised, that he should
have got his company, and we are sure all readers of the
Spectator will wish him good luck. We shall be glad to hear of or from any other members of the Spectator Company who have joined the new Army or the Territorials for the war.—ED. Spectator.]
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