THE "SPECTATOR " EXPERIMENTAL COMPANY AND THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. [To
THE EDITOR OF . THE " SPECTITOR."1 Sta,—I think it may interest your readers to know that Colonel
• Walsh, late Somerset Light Infantry, who acted as subaltern to Colonel Pollock when he trained the Spectator Experimental Company, is commanding the 13th Northumberland Fusiliers, now fighting on the Western front. Though like all our troops well supplied in essentials, I understand that the regiment would be very grateful indeed to receive from those of your readers—and they must be many—who have special ties with Newcastle and the county of Northumberland, help in supplying their lesser wants. At the present moment what they are most in need of are warm socks of all sizes and anti-verminous shirts (these are dipped in some strong solution). The parcels of socks and shirts should be addressed to the Commanding Officer, 13th Northumberland Fusi- liers, B.E.F.—I am, Sir, &c., A SUBSCRIBER TO VIZ " SPECTATOR " ExPERIMENTAL COMPANY FUND.
(We feel sure that a great many of those who subscribed to the original Spectator Experimental Company, and who at the time visited their training-place at Hounslow and saw how ably Colonel Walsh, then a young subaltern, assisted Colonel Pollock in the schooling of the men, will do all they can to further the request of " A Subscriber to the Spectator Experimental Company Fund." There must always be a tie between readers of the Spectator and any unit commanded by Colonel Walsh. In this context it may interest our readers to know that almost all the men still alive who were trained in the Spectator Experimental Company are doing well. We believe that no fewer than three of the members are now Captains—a very fine record considering the time that has elapsed, some nine years, and the fact that probably since the war began there have not been more than sixty men capable of earning their promotion. At present it is impos- sible to collect the information, but we trust at the end of the war to be able to show what the men trained by Colonel Pollock and Colonel Walsh have achieved.—ED. Spectator.]
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