Recruiting Address – Chichester Observer – Wednesday, 07 October 1914

Transcript:

SELSEY. Recruiting Meeting- A meeting to promote recruiting, especially in the Territorials, was held at the Cinema Hall on Saturday night. The chair was taken by the Rector (the Rev. C. W. G. Wilson), and addresses were given by Captain Stephen, Dr. Humphreys, Mr. Archibald Hamilton, and Lieutenant Watkins, who is in command of the cyclist section of the Isle of Wight Territorials now quartered in the village. There was a good attendance of the general public, and it is hoped that there will be satisfactory results.

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