SIR,—In your issue of April 8th in a letter on
the above your correspondent ignores the fact that every officer and man in my brigade (three batteries) volunteered for service in or out of the country, and actually served for three months, complete establishments, at Aldershot and Bulford in the year 1900. We came home at the end of June, 1900, when the war in Africa appeared to be over, and would have volunteered further. Subsequently we sent out a good many men who joined the Yeomanry and other corps for service at the front. Your correspondent's record is, I think, quite incorrect in leaving out mention of the services of the brigade which I now have the honour to command.—I am, Sir, &c., W. CLIFFORD PHILLIPS, Lieut.-Col.,
Commanding 1st Mon. R.G.A. (Vols.) Headquarters, Rodney Parade, Newport (Mon.)
[We are asked by our correspondent, " Volunteer Field Officer," to state that the splendid services of Colonel Wallace and his corps in mobilising a whole brigade division of Field Artillery at a time when there were but eight batteries of Regular Field Artillery remaining in the country, are per- fectly well known to him, as they are to the whole Volunteer Force. He was unable, however, to give prominence to an aspect of the question which did not directly concern the problem of a war overseas, and the figures sent in by Colonel Phillips .unfortunately did not state, what now appears to have been the case, that this corps, like so many other Volunteer Artillery corps, volunteered to a man for service, not merely at home, but anywhere.—ED. Spectator.]
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