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8/10/2019 1932 Summer
1/23
Vol 1
No
6
TH
Royal Army Pay Corps
Journal
SUMMER 1932
8/10/2019 1932 Summer
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THE
ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS JOU
RNAL
LICHFIELD
TH GEORGE
H
OTEL
T eiephrllte
69 70
T HE SWAN
HO T E L
T elep ho
ll
e 93
fit
~ i t h e ~
of
the
abolle
H otels
lIisilors may be as ured of
{he
utmost comfort & convenience
of
the best
of
catering
and of
a
tentive willing
&
courteous
service.
BALL Ro
ml . BILLfAnns .
GARAGE
OLD
\ '\"O R
LD COil
T
FOR
'l' &
HOSPITALITY
By
Official
Appointment
To the R.A.P.C . Officers Club
OFFICERS ' CLUB AND CORPS COLOURS.
Our special Pure Dye Reppe Silk Ties 5/S
Our Uncreasable Weave Silk Ties . . .... S/ S
Pure
Dye Reppe Silk Squares, 32 inch. 2 /
Best
Hand
Framed
Medium Weight
Light
Weights
Sweaters
(Trimmed)
..
....
33 / S
.. rom 19 / 5
Best
Hand
Framed Wool Scarves
Medium Weight ........ ....16 /S
Light Weight .... .
....
..
..
.... . ..12 / S
R.
A.P.C
. Officers
Club Blazers
(made
to measure)
........
....
57 / S
FuJI Price List on Appli c
at
ioll.
All goods
are
suhj ect Lo 10 per ceot .
Cash Discou nt to members of the Offi cers'
Club .
~ M T p ~ i f
39 P aD
Ion S
tr
ee t
Ha
y
market
, S. W .l
Estabd . 1898
On l
y Addresp
The
Royal Army Pay Corps -
Journal
Vo
l.
I. No.
6.
Summer,
1932.
Eclitori a Notes
The London Gaze
tt
e
Corp Sports N e\\'s
CO
NTEN TS
Old
Comrades Association-Annual Meeting
" " -
Fourth
Annual
Dinner
Notes on the Hi story of Army P
ay
(co
nt
inu ed )
Our
Chess
Page
Short
T h e
E nemi
es
by
H. Schu
ltze
Ob ituary
Corps
Not ES a
nd
Ne\\'s
Crossword Pu
zzL
Result
iy First W inner
Wind Up
Dri)leries de Co
rps
Promotions, Appointments, etc .
M.Q.R .
W a
itin g List
20 1
20 1
10
2
alld 20,)
2
04
206
2 10
2T
3
2 1/1
21
219 to 23
.
234
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.
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24
0
2
40
11
Advert
ise
me
llt 206a , 20Sb , 234a, 234b,
Cover pp
. ( ii ),
(iii)
,
and
(iv) .
11
UPPORT
THOSE FIRMS WHO
'SUPPORT US.
The
Royal Army Pay Corps Journal
80, Pa ll Mall , London,
S.W.I.
June,
1932.
Th
e chief event of the past quarter has
been the fourth Annua l Genera l Meeting
of
th
e Old Comrades
Association
and the
Reunion Dinner, both of which \\ 'ere held
in Lond on on
Friday,
22 nd April. At the
latter
function
over tliree
hundred
past
anc1 prese
nt
members of the Corps as
cm
bled, and a very enjoyable evening \\'as
spent.
A full account
of
the Di
nner
and Annual
Meeting appears el
sewhere
in
this
issue.
*
*
*
W e hope in a fu ture iss
ue
to be
able
to
give an outline of the d
ll
ties of
our
A
ll
ied
Corps in South Africa. The functions of
this unit differ considerably frol11 th ose of
ollr
0\\ 11
Corps and \\'e fee l Sllre
that
a ll
our
reaclers \\ill \\ 'elco
l11e thi
s inf
or mati
on
\\'hen it comes to hand .
* * *
*
Th
e Annual Dinner of the Royal Army
Pay Corps Dinner Club is being held at
the Trocnc1ero Restaurant
011
Friday, [st
Ju ly, 1932
at
7.45
p.ll l.
It is hoped th at
as many as possible wi
ll
endeavour to be
present
on this occasion.
Tickets, (price
/ '
for subscribers to
the
Dinner
Fund
and 35/ ' for lion
ubscr
i
bers) may
be obtained frOIll
the H on.
Secretary, Lieut. Col. H . GengeAndre\ys,
Pa
ll Mall,
London
S.W.I.
LATE
NEWS.
No. 7657349 S.Q .M.S. E.
O.
CoO l er ha Leen
promoted Warrant Officer Class I, with effect rol11
6th November, 1931 and will ontillue to do duly
in the Houns low Office.
20r
From
The
London Gazette'
ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS.
L ie ut . G. H aggard , The Queen's Regiment, Lo
be
Lieut
. and
Paymr.
(011 probation) (Novemb
er
13, 1931).
MalOI' (Asst. Payl11l'.)
R
N. Hll.nt,
M.B.E.,
. Lo be
Lie ut'.-CoL (Asst. P a,ymr.) (April
1).
Major
(A
sst
. Paymr.)
J.
Thornhill having
'
attained
th e age
limit
for retirement, retires on
l'etil'ed pay (April ) .
Staff Sergeant.Ma jor H . Stubbs lo be Lieut
(Asst.
Paymr.)
(April 11).
Major
(Asst.
Paymr.)
1 o g ~ i M.B.E., having
attained the age limit for retIrement, retires on
retired
pay
(April 24).
Sta,ff Sergt.Major C. O'
Leary
to be Lieu t.
(Asst . Paymr.)
(Apri
l 24).
Capt. C. L. Boyle, R.A., Lo be Capt and Paymr
(on proba,tlon) (January 24).
Lieut.
and
Paymr. (on pro bat ion) G. W. F.
Adams is pla ced on the h .p. List Oil account of
ill hea lth (May 14).
Ca,pt. (Asst. Paymr.) W . Mora n, O.B .E. , M.C.,
to be Major (Asst.
Pavm
r.) (May 22).
Captain (A
a Y I l l ~ . G.
Lid stone
t.o
be
Maj or
(Asst .
Paymr
.) (May 22).
Cap-tain (Asst. Payml'.) A. Gr eenwood
to
be
Major
(Asst. Payml'.)
(-ray
22).
Captain (Asst. Payml'.) W. Spence to be Majo r
(Asst.
Paymr.)
(May 22).
Capt,\i n (Asst.
Payl11J'
.) E. A. Hason to be
Major
(Asst. P aym r.) (Ma y 22).
Majol' and Staff Pnymr. S. A. Godfrey to be
Lieut . Col. (May 29).
Th e King has been graciously pleased,
on
the
occasion of Hi s Majesty's Birthday , Lo l'ive orders
for
the
following appo
intm
ents to t he Most Ex ce l
,e
nt
Order of
the
British Empire;-
To
be Officers of the Military Division of the sa id
Most Excellent Order:
Cap,tain (Asst.
Paymr.)
Charles GI;mshaw, Ro.val
Army Pay
Co
rps .
Supplement to Th e London GazeLLe dated ;'I'd
Jun
e, 1932.
ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS
OFFICERS'
CLUB
.
Th e Anllual General M e e l i n ~ of
the
Club will
I,
e
held at 2.15 p .m. un FRIDAY, 1st JULY , 1932, at
80, P all Ma
ll
,
S.W.L
Th e Comm i
ttee
hop e
that
members will make a sp'ec ial effoJ't to he present.
Agenda .
1. IVrinll les of previous
Annual
General Meeting.
2. To receive th e Report and Finan ial
State
ment foJ' the
year
ended
31st
March,
1932.
3. Allocati on of
Funds
to Sports Sections foJ'
1932/ 1933.
4. Ele ction of
Offi
cers Lo foJ)]] the General Corn.
mittee foJ' the en uing year.
5.
To
elect Honorary Auditors.
6. Hesolutio ll to confirm
the
f0l111atioll of a
CO IPS H ockey Section.
7. Allocati on of for Spol'ls Events alld
Annunl Dinne ' fo ' 1 933.
8. Olher
1.11
in es .
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THE ROYAL
ARMY
PAY
CORPS
J
OU
RNAL
I
1.
orps ports
News
- : - ~
R.A.P.C.
GOL
FIN G SO CI ETY
Arm
y T ea m
Ch
a
mpi
onsh ip. - A
te
am
was
en
tered this year for
th
e first time for
the
Army
Cu p
. Colonel Young was cap tain of
the team,
and
Majors Stanham and Hol
lingsworth and Captain Meek were selected
to play. Pla y took place over the
Ro
ya l
Liverpool course at Ho y lake . In
the
first
round we dre w R .A.M.C. Unit No . 3
(Aldershot
Command), and the result was
as follows :-
Major
P.
E.
D.
Pank 6 Ma jor
Stanham
0
Major
A. Hood . . . I Capt. Meek 0
Major
J . Fother-
in g
ham
6 Colonel
Young
...
0
Major
HoIIin
gs
-
Major
B. J. Daunt
0
wor th . .. ... 0
o
Wh i
le this
result
appears a severe defeat
it , vas similar to
many
in th e first round'
and was by no means the mo t decisive:
me
t a
strong team and
the res
ults in
dicate a very st
out
effort on
the
part of
each of
o
ur
r
epresentatives
.
Annual Summer Moot
ing.
- The Summer
Meeting
will
be
held at
the FulweIl
Golf
Club, Fu lwell nr
. Twickenham
) on
Wed
-
nesday,
29th
June,
193
2
. .
The Club
House
is one minute from Ful
well.
station
(Southern
Railway)
. ' Fu
ll
particulars have
already
been
circulated.
T
he
n n u ~
General
Meeting
will be held
on concluslOn of
the fonrsomes
.
Cam p bell
Todd
Cu p.- As the Golf
courses at Malta
and Gibraltar
are
closed
in
t o b e r the dat e for play at these s tations
Wlll
be
the
period of one
mo
nth after the
course re-opens in N ~ l V e m b e r
subject
to
15
th
of .December bell1g the closing
date
after whIch date
no cards
can be considered.
. Easte
rn Comm
and and
War
Office Sec
hon . -Results of the
knock-out
for handi
caps of 18 and above .for prize presented by
Lt
.
-Coloue
l
1. P. Bnckman. In the
final
202
Major A. A. Cockburn bea t
Brigadier
A . L
Musson (4 a nd 3) .-'
Draw
for
Spring
kn ock
out is as foll
ows, with
resu l
ts
so far
notified :-
Capt. Barlow
beat
Lt .-Col. Genge
A
ndr
ews
(4 and
3) ; Lt .-
Co
l. Bri ckm an v.
C
ap
t. Buck; Capt.
Ediu
ger
beat
CapL
Jam
es (I up ) ; L i
eut.
Thies v . Lt . -Col.
DalVson; Capt.
Garratt beat Major Robson
6
and
5);
Major J.
G. Anderson beat
Major
Cockb
urn
r up ) ; Capt. Bro adh mst
beat Lieut. Hagga r
d;
Brigadier
Musson v.
Capt.
J .
G.
Woods
.
2
ud Ro
und to be completed
by
J un e 8
th
.
J rd
Round
by June
22
nd,
and
Final by
Jun
e 29 th .
HOCKE
Y
Ten
ma t
ches were p layed las t season,
five of wh ich were
played
since th e last
issue of the Journal.
Depot East
S
urreys
4, R. A .P .C . 2;
R. A .
P.C.
3,
Richmond
and Ki ngston
H.
A
0;
Richmond
and Kingston H.
0,
R.A.P .C . I; l
'orth and what
useful purpose it serves, and I submit that
our record to date is fully
wort
h y of the
support
of every old
and serving member
of the Corps.
The
spirit of comradesh ip that
has
carried
us to the position we
have
attained
to
-day
should
remain
till the end of
time.
" \
ith
comradeship and goodwill,
a
ny
difficulty can be overcome.
Stick
together,
and the y will be overcome, olle will he lp
the other
while
li
ving,
and whell we
have
passed on we
vvill
not
be forgo
tten, our
n
ames
wiB be inscribed O
l
the
ro
ll of
hon our and
carved deeply
in the wa
ll
of
remembrance.' ,
Loud
a
nd
hearty
app
lause which was
continued for so
me
time.
The
Chairman then anlloullced that the
follo\\ '
ing mcssage had
been received
from
the Private Secretary to His Majesty.
Colonel A..rmstrong,
Royal
Army Pa y Corps,
Old
Comrades
Association Dinner,
Chiltern Hall, Bake r S
treet,
L ondon.
Please
cOllvey to the lIlembers of the
Old
Comrades
Associ
ation,
Ro ya l Army
Pay
Corps,
assembled
at their
fourth
annua
l
dinner , The
King's
sincere thanks for their
loya l greetings
which His
Ma j
esty much
apprecia tes.
Pri
vate Sec r
etary.
The gracious
rep ly of
His Majesty
was
much appreciated . Cables from
Malta
and
Egypt expressing good wishes, were also
read, and were rece
ived with acclamation.
The
Honorary Secretary announced
that
let ters of good wishes and regrets for
absence had
been received from
Sir
Herbert
208
Creedy,
K.C.B . , K .C.V .O ., who wished
particularly to express regret
at his
in
abi li ty to attend owing to his attendance at
th e dinner of the Roya l Society of St,
Geo
rge ; Mr. Watherston, DirectQ,r of
Finan
ce , Col
on e
l
F. M.
Watkins, C.
B.E.,
Lt.-Colonel R.
W. Anderson,
M.B .E ., Mr.
George Stephens, Mr. S. A. W. Cass, al\
absent throug h illness, and
good
wishes
from Mr. F.
Mc Jicoli,
Nla
jor J .
Th
ornhill,
]l.lajor H. Drummond, Captain W. T Pyke,
M.B.E., and var i
ous
Pay Offices.
The
company
then
broke up in to small
groups,
where
old mem
or
ies
were reviv
ed
again,
and towards midnight the gathering
took their departure, having spent a very
h
app
y and enjoyable
evening.
Th
e din n
er
committee
consisted
o f -
Staff
Sergeant-Major
E.
J. W. Bro
\\
'ne,
Staff Quartermaster-Ser
gea nt F.
V. Mundy ,
and
Sergea
nt
T.
F.
Pone .
OLD COMRADES ASSOCIATION.
Committee Notes.
Th e Committee of Man age me
nt
have met mon thly
since th e las t is sue of t he " J ourn al" was pull
lished ,
and
dealL ,v
ith
fourteen
appli
ca tion s for
ass is tan ce, none of wh ich
were
in re pect
of
mem o
be
l
S alth o
ugh
tw o
were
connected wit h th e rela
tiv
es of memb ers. R e
li
ef
wa
s giv en in a
ll
but
foul'
cases, which
it
was dec
id
ed t o refer
to th
e Genera l
Comm i
ttee
Th
e
Dinn
er Commi
ttee
ca rri ed o
ut the
a
rrange
m
ents
for
th
e annu
:t
l
dinner
, and re
ported that a
cred
it
ba lance of
5
8s. 6d.
had
been
handed
over
to th
e
Honorary Tr
eas
ur
er a fter a ll liabilities had
been
met
.
Furth
er don
atio
ns h
ave
been received as follow
s :-
6
from
the
Sa
li sbury Br
anch pel Lie
ut
e
nant
O'L
ea
ry,
being th
e bal
ance
a
fter th
e dance seaso
n;
1
10s.
Od.
from
Lt.
-Co
l.
R
W. And
erson, M
.B.E.,
< \
Iso
th
e g
ift
of
a
W
emb
ley Cup Tie Tiket which
realised 7s. 6d. The Commit
tee
desire to
expr
ess
their gratitude bo
th
to
Saljsbury and
Lt. -Col.
And
erson for their int eres t in
th
e .i\ssociation.
Oth
er items of
minor imporl
ance were also dealt
with
.
Th
e Gen e
ral Commitlee
met
at
80
Pall
Mall,
S.
W.l.,
on W{ldnesday , 6th
Ap
ril , 1932,
at
4 p.m.
Mr.
W .
Woodland
occupi
ed
the Cha ir , oth er mem
ber
s pn;se
nt
were Mess rs. RC .
B.
Sharp , J .P. , J .
Thurgo od, J. Feehally, S.S.Major P. Plowman ,
S.Q.M.Sgt . F.
V.
Mundy, Sergeants T. F. Pond ,
A. C. Tribblc, Capta in L. E.
Jam
es, M.C. , R on.
Tr
eas
urer
an d
S.S.Majol
E.
J. VI . Bro
wn e, H ony.
Secre
lar
y.
Th
e va
rious it
ems conn
ecte
d
with the
annu al
gener
al
meeting and th
e a
nnual dinn
er we
re co
n
sidered
and
a
pprov
ed.
Th
e
Hon. Secretal), pr
e
se
nt
ed
th
e Annual
Report
which
was
dis cussed,
approved,
and
ordered to be printed.
THE R OYAL ARMY PAY CORPS J O RNAL
Foul'
cases of
ass
ista nce referred from
the Manage
me
nt m m i ~ t
were dea lt
with and
ass i
stance
rendered in
three
of the cases . In an
other
ca.se
already
be
ing
d
ea
lL wi
th
by t he Comrn i
LLee,
it was
decided to cease
fu rther payment
ancl close the
case as from
31 st March
, 1932.
The Comm i
tt
ee rep'ort with deep the
deaths of th e foll owi
ng
Old
Comra
des Slll
Cil
Ia.st
issue:-
S.Q.M.Sgt. E. E. McCon:le ll at MiUbank.
Maj or A. Macaulay at Folk estone.
Mr.
J.
Faulks a t WarringLon.
Lt
. -Oo lonel J. F. V. S. Whitmarsh at AId
I
hot.
We offer our deep
est
sympathy to Lheir bereaved
rela ti ves.
E. J. W. BROWNE
,
Hony. Secl'etary.
OUR
CONTEMPOR
ARIES .
The Edit
ors ac knowl
edge \\'
i
t.h
many
th:tnks re-
ceipt
of th e followin _ J oumals :- .
.. H
A.M. C. News and
Gazette
," Ma
l.
, AprJ ,
M
ay.
The Wir
e
Mar.
,
April,
M
ay
.
..
The S a p p ~ r
M a r
Apl'il , M
a)
.
.. Th e
Gunner, April, May, Jun e.
..
RA
.O.C. G
azette, Mar.
, Aprtl ,
May.
.. Th e W
asp,
Apri
l.
.
"
Th
e Accol1J1tant (Fi ve cop ies) .
BOOK REVIEW
.
TH E
DE
IM AL BEADY RECKO
ER
" (F.
\Val'ne
&
Co., London. Pri ce 2/ 6.)
, th ose whose work entails calculations in
de
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THE ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS JOU RN AL
Notes
on
the
History of
rmy Pa
By Lieut .-Colonel E. E.
E.
T O
DD, O.B.E
.
R.A.P.C.
Continued
fr
onl p g ~
172
XCIX.
t is of particular interest at the present
time
to
note that towards the end
of
the
long-dra\l
'
n-out Rev
o lutionary and
p o ~
leonic
Wars,
the pound sterl1l1g went off
the
gold standard and
could
be sold
abroad
only
at a
discount
.
t
is of further interest
to note the vital effect on the Penins
ular
campaign of the difficulties in supplying
specie dnd (especia lly to the
Tr
eas UTY
Chest Officer of
to-day) the
m
eans adop
ted
for raising
funds
locally in
Spain
and Por
tugal.
The main source of silver specie
had
for
long
been the
Spa
nish colonies of
South America;
but since these had
re
volted from Spain, and Engl,and \I'as 1l0\\
Spain's ally, it was difficult for
the
Treasury
to
deal \\"ith Spain's rebels, and
the
traffic in bullion was lar ge ly in
the
hands of private interests.
It
is of still
mor
e interest to
note
that WeiJlingtoll \\'ho
was fully cognisant of
the
situation,
had
many
an
acute
argument with Ministers
at home over
the supply
of ready cash,
and
that
one
of
the
three great
Comman
ders
in English
histor
y
(CroTI1\\ ell,
l\1arl
borough, Wellingt on) \\ as forced, duri ng
one of our
momentous campaigns,
to get
down
personally
to
details
of payment
011
the spot to Spanish mul
ete ers. These
muleteers provided the bulk of the
Army
transport; without payment there was
little or no transport;
without transport
the
Army
could
not
move.
C.
The
normal
method
of raising com In
Portugual was
to purchase
it locally
against the issue of British Treasury Bill. .
But
even if the English
exchange
had
been at par, there \\'as
not
sufficient specie
available;
and \\'hen consignments
arrived on the
mark
et , the Treasury \ \ a ~
unwilling to sell bills at a discount. Dur
ing
Sir
John
Moore's
cam] aign th e ex
change
\\'
as
17
per
cent
aga
inst
England;
and in 1808 the Commissaries could ob
tain only 4,800 at
ss
. 2d. for the silv er
dollar
(normally worth ahout
4S.).
The
210
pay
of th e tr
oops was in
arrear and large
bills for transport and supplies \\ 'ere out
:;,
tanding. Reinforcements which had
arr ived off Corunna
could
n ot be landed ,
because the
Commander was
fearful of
landing th em \\"ithout payment of their
arrears, and
\\
'ith out current coin he could
not pay th em.
He borrowed
25,000
in
dollars
from the Government of Galicia,
and
la ter raised a furth er sum from the
Ambassador
at Madr
id, to
whom
there
had
been
consigned thr
ee million
dollars
for
the
purpose
of strengthening the Spa ni sh
o v r n m l
Cr.
At this
time
the duty of ralSll1g fUllds
for Army
requirements
rested
upon
th e
Commi. sariat, or Transport and upply
Department,
which
j rom its origin had
been controlled by the
Treasury. Co n-
tra cts for food a
nd tr
a nsport were a t first
made direct by the Treasury. but after
1797 were divided
amo
ng a multitude
of
authorities at home a nd
abroad
,
until ill
r808 th e who le of th em were vested
in
the
Commissary-General.
:rhe Commissariat
officers
drew pay
in part from th e
Tr e
as
ur
y,
in
part
fr om
the War Off
Ice,
holding
a cOllll1li sion from the latter
and
a " COl-
stitution from
the
former.
The
COlJ1-
missary-General
dre\\"
4
a
day
from the
Treasury, and
from the War Ofl:.::e
3
a
day plus a
}\t
[aj or-Gene ra l' s field a llowance.
Th u
s
on
o
ne
side
the
COlTlmissary
General repres
e
nt
ed the Treasury a
nd
controlled the
Tr
eas
ur
y 's officials
ab
roa
1;
\\"hile
011
the other he acted in close co-
operation
with the Commander-iu-Chief,
alld
th r
ough him Wellington
\V
s
ab
le to
brin g his persona l auth or
it
y to
bear
on
\\'hat became a more and more urgent
problem, i. e , the
supply of specie.
cn.
During-
the expedition
to the
Sche
lc1t
under
the
Earl of Chatham,
the
'l'reasm y
insisted on the sa le of bills at par, and at
the
same tim
e;
on payment for local sup
plies at
the
o
ld
prices,
with
o
ut
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depreciation
in the exchange.
The
Commissary-General
urged
that such
allowance must
be
made,
only
to bring
upon himself a severe rebuke -from
the
Treasury.
'ln
any case,
bills
could
be
floated
only on the
markets of Rotterdam,
Alhsterdam, or Hamburg ,
and
communica
tion with all three was closed. Castlereagh
wrote to Chatham:
" When I
inform
you
that we do
not
possess the power of send
ing a single foreign c ~ i n from hence, al:d
that in the last extremIty , rather
than dIS-
band the army,
British
g
uineas
must be
sen t, you will
not
be
surprised
at receiving
peremptory orders to enforce the system
agreed
on before
you left London.
. . I
need
not suggest what
would be
the im
pression if guineas were
going out to pay
our army abroad. Besides, it could not
be done without an Order
in
Coullcil, and
other
proceedings which mi
g
ht
em-
barrass." Chatham , however,
strongly
suppor ted his Cornmissary-
Genentl.
Either allowance
must
be made
for dis
count, he
wrote,
or guineas must be sent
to him. The inconveniences of th e latter
course
would be nothing to those which
would attach to the
dishonour
of
the
British name . The opinion of the K ing's
Advocate was taken, and was given against
Chatham; and,
beyond
obtaining a small
remittance in
dollars,
Chatham failed.
The
Scheldt expedition was only one of the
many futile dispersions of
the British
forces
which
marked the strategy of the
Government until
a decisive theatre o f war
was
found
in the Peninsu l
ar,
so that the
matter counted for little; but the Treasur y
won the
round
.
CIII .
The
supply of coin was of far grea ter
importance in the Peninsular.
In the
midd
le of 1809
Wellington wrote:
" I can
not get
supp
lies ,
or
boats or
carts
to move
supplies from Lisbon without money.
Here was a pretty
pass
for a Commander
matched
against Napoleon's most
famous
Marshals. The French sys tem was to live
on the country, to
pay
for nothing, a
nd
to do without convoys.
The British
sys
tem was to
pay
for
everything, and
to sup
port their troops from base to
front
with
convoys
of supplies. Wellington
obtained
a loan from Oporto to enable him to move.
Aga in, he got 100,000 from Cadiz with
great difficulty. Huskisson
at the Treas-
21I
ury wrote to Wellington: " How can you
expect us to buy specie
here with
the ex
change thirty
per
cent against us, and
guineas
selling at 24S.? " Wellington
replied that specie was always obtainabl e
in Lisbon
in the
open
market
after the
arrival
of the English packet-a clear proof
to him that the Treasury were unwilling to
pay
the
market
price
for specie either at
home
or by
th
e
issue
of bills at a dis
count abToad.
In
other words, the cam
paign
had
to be hindered or stopped be
cause
the Treasury
\ \Iould
not face facts.
CIV
.
In
1811 banknotes began to be refused
in En g land
its
elf at their face value, and
payments
were demanded
either
ill
go
ld
or
in paper
money valued according to the
price of go ld.
In
August Wellington wrote
that
he had never been
in
such \\
'a
nt
of
mon ey.
Com
from the
United States
had
to be paicl for in specie at Lisbon. The
pay
of
the
Spanish
muleteers \\
'as six
months
in arrear. The
attempt
to get the
Spanish merchants
to accept
Bank
of
England notes
at
their face va lue failed.
Early ill 1812 the muleteers
had in ge
neral
not been paid
for
tw
elve months,
the pay
of the troops was
three
months in arrear,
and
the
allo\lances. of the officers six
months. There were large outstallding
bills
'for meat
and
ot her supplies. I
ca
nnot
reflect with out shuddering, \\Tote V..rell-
ing ton, "
upon the consequences
which
may
result from our wanting mon ey in the
interior
of Spain. He was a\yare that
dollars \\'ere beng hoaTded ill
Spain and
Portu
ga
l and at Gibraltar,
but
hi s Com
missaries were
outbidden
by the Treasury
itself .
Thus Wellington
had been
author
ised to
buy
two million dollars at Gibraltar
at
Ss.
8d. per dollar,
but
a
Trea
s
my
off cial
go t them at 6s. 2d. The British Con
at Cadiz knew
that
the greater part of
the
specie
landed
there from
South America
go t in to
the
hands of the
private
bullion
dealers. t began to be rea lised that
EnCTlish
agents in
various
parts of Europe
were
competing
one agains t another; and,
in the Ho use of Lords, Lord Wellesley
stated that
the
Govemment cOllld have
bought abundance of
dollars
in South
America if they paid the market price
there,
instead of letting the silver reach
Spain and
become a
speculative counter.
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The
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By
H SCHULTZE
In the month of Aug ust 1
929,
my wife
a
nd
I dec ided to spe nd o
ur
ann ual holid ay
l
az
ily jo
urn ey
ing
th
rough F ra nce,
th r
ough
smiling vill age and fl ouri shin g c.oun t ry
side
th
at had once re-echoed to th e lIlfern a1
din of war . Of
-co
urse I had heard
it
m
yse
lf, a stiff left l
eg
a
nd
a
rm
, to
say
nothin g of my left eye ra th er und er th e
wea th er , we re un pleasa
nt
remin
de
rs at
time
s. Y es, I had co
mm
a
nd
ed me
n,
gal
lant meu .
H owever, here we were,
traversing
Fr
ance , not as touri sts
mind
you,
but as
tr
ampers, takin g th e rough w
ith
the smoo
th
but
th
e court esies of
th
e
peo ple more'th an repa id us for any short
comin gs we mig ht encoun te r a fin e peop le
th
e
Fr
ench , as I h
ad goed
ca use to kn ow.
One 'arm morning- yo u kllow th e sort
of
golden
y mo
rnin g,
if I may call it s
o-
t
ow
ard s
r.
oon ,
we
reac hed
th
e s mall ha
ml
et
of Revy and ha lted at a littl e farmh ouse
to replenish our
th
erm os with coffee. Th is
w
as
our usual meth Od for obta ining re
freshment , sandwiches in our wallets and
delicious co ffee pu rchased for a few fr ancs
at some cott age on our road.
Th i
s looked
a
cheerful littl
e house so I rapped at th e
door w
ith
my stick, and aft er a few
minutes a pleasa
nt-f
aced \\'oman appea red.
Madame," I b
egan
in my best Fr e
nch
,
but after th e first moment th e woman
smil ed and said in perf e-c t E ng li sh , Yes ,
what can I do for you? My wife laughed
merri
ly a t thi s a
nd
ex claimed , Oh Ja
ck,
it
s all
ri
g
ht
,
th
e lady
und
ersta
nds
Engli sh
"
Well, seeing th at I am
E nglish, I think I do ," she smil ed
bac
k .
I explained our 'wa nts , and imm ediately
she said, "Please come inside a
nd
rest,
or perh
aps yo
u wo
uld
lik e to s
it
in th e
ga rd en . We both promptl y ag reed we
would . Our pleasant acq uaint ance intro
duc ed herself as Ma
dam
e Ma lot , and led
us thr oug h her s
cru
pul ously d ean and
daint y living -room int o
th
e ga rden , a per
fect ga rd e
n,
a riot of blooms a
nd th
e pun
gent smell of
ripe
fruit bushes
was
very
214
pleasa nt . Nea
rb
y
\\ a
s a
man,
pre s
umabl
y
Mada me' s hu sba nd, per .ched on a woo den
box ty ing up a creeper round a 'rustic
arch. Th c man was one -a
rm
ed , and help
in
g him was a sturdy boy of about
ten or
eleve n year s of age . As we sea ted our
selves und er a tr ee, Madam Malot called
out Paul, Helmut, come here . Th e
rnan jumped d
ow
n
at
once a
nd
step ped
towa rd s us foll
owe
d by
th
e
yo un gs
ter.
Panl , dea r, said Mad amc Mal ot
in
E ng li sh ,
P l
eas e show
the
lady and
ge
ntl eman our prize flo
wer
s, while I pre
pa re some co
ff
ee, and H e
lmut,
darling ,
shake hands wi th th e lady and th en come
and help me carry out the cups . We will
a
ll
h
ave
a seco
nd breakfa
st," she re
maTk ed ga il y
in
re ply to my mutt ered ex
pos tul a tions abo ut giving trouble .
It
is
not oft en we have visit o
rs;
co
me
H el
Tllut
..
. .
Th e
y turned away towards
th e house followed by the lo
ving
eyes of
th e hu sband . He turned to us remarking
in hi s un -E ng lish way, "There goes my
hea
rt
a
nd Helmut
is my rig
ht
ha
nd,
for
ind eed I have n't one m
ys
elf," he finished
whim sica
ll
y, pointing .to
th
e empty coa t
sleeves p inned across
hi
s
brea
st.
W e str o
l1
ed round th e tin y
dom
ain and
a
dmir
ed th e really lovely
fl
owers and
pla
nt
s, and my wife went into ecstas ies
ove r th e vege table plot .
S uch
delicious
lookin g lettu ces.
Wh en we returned to Ollr
tr
ee Madame
Malot a
nd
her son
had
spre
ad
a bo
untiful
tab le-crea my co ffee ill yellow cup s, a
frag rant salad, bro
v
n bre ad lav ishly sp read
with
thi
ck clo
tt
ed
cr
e
am,
ye llow delph
shells pa.cked w
ith
rich
amber
honey- a
feas t for th e gods.
Rea lly I began, but our
ho
stess
la ug hed a
nd
interrupted,
say
in g , Oh,
please don't disappoint me, and I am
sill11 ly longin g to hear all about what is
go ing on in E ng land. I
came
to France
d urin
g-
th
e war and
here
I
am
ever since
and I don't kn ow that I ever want to
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leave . I belong to
Fr
ance, don 't I , Pa ul ?
she
adde
d glancin g at her
hu
sba nd .
Now, l m u t
you
be
a
ga
lla
nt
, mak e
lV
l
ada
me c o
mf
ort
ab
le, give her
th at
and th en you ca n hand ro
und
th e coffee.
O
ui , Ma man, Teplicd th e boy,
a.
nd
pe
rfor
med his d uti es w
it
h grave and qua
111t
dignit y.
We did
/:1.111
justice to the mca l, and
cha tted cheerfully abou t E ngland .
We ll , H elm
ut,'
I sa id d
urin
g a pa use ,
W hat aTe
you go
ing to do when
yo
u
grow up? Th.e solemn yo un g ~ c e : ~ k e
out into a snllle as he ans wered, A
soldier
lik
e Dad , sir.
"Goo
d work
,"
I
said .
By
th
e
way,"
I rema
rk.
ed to Mon
sieu r NIalot , forgive my be1l1g personal ,
but isn' t H elmut a ra
th
er. nam.c
for a son of F r
ance?
ObvlO usl
)
, It s Ge
l
m
an."
A short silence fo
Jl
o\\'e? words
a
nd
the ma ll looked to\\'ards h IS W fe \\ 'ho
nodd ed her head reass
urin
gly.
Mada
me
lVIa
lot stood up
.a
nd
add
ressed
111y wife W o uldn 't you llkc to see my
, F ' I I '
cl
airy and a Tea l re
ll
c
1 Ill
en-pres
..
In d
eed I \\ o
uld,"
replied W
If
e,
"espec ially aft er g reedil y such
deli cious c ream and alm ost wlshlllg I
.co
uld
stea l yo ur t
ab
lecloth, it is so bea utl fu1.
Th
en \
\
e will l
eave
th e men to
and H elmut
mu
st
go
to ,;10 hI S
lesson
s -o
ff yo u go my httle hea rt . .
Th
e
boy
sa lut
ed
sm art ly a
nd ohe(
he
ntl
y
turn ed
away.
As th e lad ies walk ed towa rd s th e
Monsieur Ma lot looked a t me and , c 1
quietly, "Yes, Monsieur, H elmut
1S
a
Ge r
ma
n name .. . Yo u remembe r , of
conr se , th e Great Pu sh of 1918 ," h e \\:e nt
on in goo d
th
o ugh
E.
n
.g
J
sh .
c.
W ell , I
thillk
I do, I r
ep IJ
ed S
1
:lIhn g ly .
Th
en Monsieur, I need
go IOt
O th e
det a
il
s of tha t unhappy period; su ffice. to
say
I h
ad
bee n sen t home from the h ospItal
a ' helI less one-a
rm ed ma
n to a helpless
wi fe . nd you mu st un dersta nd , 1\1 on
sieur , th a t our now smiling tin y
Revy
lay
in
th
e direc t line of
ene
my and ally a
nd
\\ as th en a forgott e ll piece of th e ba ttl e
fie
ld.
t was ea rly October when I ret ur ned
an
cl
our people had bee n warn ed to leave .
..
. Alas, I co
uld
not leave , I da red not
215
move my wife, she
\\
'as delicate , you. un
dersta
nd
, my fri e
nd.
one
l11
ght,
M 'si eu, when I kn ew her tlm e was up on
her , I was desperate, no doctor, nur se,
me , not
ye
t familiar with m
.y
mI sfo
rtun
e,
ma
kin
g
clumsy at t
empts to .ald . A
h,
Jes
u,
how terri ble it was Out sIde I da red not
venture. All was desolation and ruin .
We ,re in
a dere
li
ct vill
age,
a s
tn
ck en
silent piece of
unh
app?,
c e .
But
th
ere,
l\1
' sieu it is not my
111
te nt
JO
ll to relate an
aspect 'o f th e VI/ar i t J ~ \\ 'hich you are
alrea
dy
famili ar , I ex plam only
as
to my
b
oy.
And
thi
s
ab
o
ut
. o 'cl o
ck
.or
so I sat alone wlth my WIfe . She was
br
av
e, Mon sieur, her smiling .but
her
eyes--ju
st pools of s
uffenn ;g
angms
h,
a
nd
I could do no
thin
g ,
th
e
pa111
of
th
at
he
lp
lessness, a knife ploughin g .my hea rt
my
Go
l
go
th a.
AS
.I say,
NI Sl
eu, sa t
toge
th
er in
th
e sem.l-da
rkn
css a
nd
lik e lost crea tur es 111 a wo rlel of shad ows ,
onc tin y 1g
ht
onl y burning before
th
e
Crucified C
hri
st 0
11
th
e \yall. S
udd
enly
th e opp ress ive silence was sha tt ered. W e
heard footsteps approachin g and a shar p
kn ock on th e cloor W e were
startl
ed
, but I laid my WIfe on ;h
.e
bed . ( Be ca reful,' s
he
It
may be th e T ommi es
but
If th ey are th e
Hu n
s, oh,
be
carefu l , s
he
repea ted
in an ex hausted te
rr
or. Ee
br
ave , my
hea rt , ' I whispe re d in reply . . I shut t.he
door a
nd
descend ed softl
y;
aga
1l1
th ere \\ as
a
kn
ock , a
nd
I could a guttural
VOlce
murmur.
(S o
il ieh (h e ThUT A u f b r
H err H auptm ann ? '
Th
e enemy ; I dI d
not wa
nt
my poor \yife startl ed by. th e
breakin g open of
the
door , so I
hurn
edly
unl ocked it and an o fficer and t wo men
e
nt
ered,
Ge
nn ans, of course .
Th
ey
looked tir ed, a
nd
I lea
rnt
a
ft
eTward s were
th
e sole s
urvi
vors of a pa
tr
ol. had
escaped th ough heavy fightin g . w a ~ pro
gress. Th e .Gerrnan
111l
e >yas
alr
eady
wea ke
nl11
g, haln ed by
the blas tin
g
shr
ap
nel of th e Alh ed. forces . .. ,?ut
you pa rd on , NI' sieu, aga lll I mu st re
ml11
d
myse lf I
spea
k not of th e W ar b
ut
of my
son H el1llut .
(( Th e officer th e typ ica l Pru ssian type,
advanced a few' steps , poin ted
hi
s revolver
at me and addr essed me ill good
Fr
e
nch
:
( H ow 111 any people here? Any .
house inh abit ed ? Ha ve you a
r111ht
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guard and " 'her
e?
Any food?
Ver
stehen?' I looked at him st upidl y and
stammercd there " 'as
nobody.
I was
not
afraid, but
my
\rif
e,
l\l'
sieu, I wished to
ex plain, and in my feverish an." iety could
not do so clearl y. The officer turned to
Ji s mer and
excla
'imcd im pat ient l. ' Ob ,
take
the
do lt out a nd tie him
up, But
wait; march him before me, I'U. have a
look round, ups tairs.'
I turned round besee a
word,
but he
did n
ot
take the sli
ghtest notice
of
me and repea ted th e order to march. V
e
ascended the
stairs
and
advanced
to the
bedroom door
a nd
halted.
Still holding
th
e revo l
ver, the
officer
pushed
opcn the
door a
nd peered
in.
On
ly the li vid
fi
g
ur
e of
the Christ
\ Va
disce rni ble on
the
wall,
th
e rcs t of the
r00111
" 'as in
darkness.
I m
ade
a
step forward but
th e officer
turned rowld like a flash.
'Quiet, '
he
harked.
H e produced some ma
tch
es
and
struck a lig
ht. The
fecbl e
fli cke
r fell on
my wife ha lf crouching on th e bed, her
eyes \\ 'ere closed
and
the
perspiration had
kn
o
tted her hair
round
her temples
a
crown
of pa
in
. H
er hour of
agony
~ \ a s
upon her, and I, Monsieur who 'ould
have
g
iven
my life
thrice
o v ~ r to save her
an instant of her anguish, could do
nothl11g .
ff Is that yot , Paul ? she whispered .
Are
you all '
rIght? '
and in the
same
breath
gaspe
d,
' O
h,
God.' I
strove
to
answe r cheerfully ,
b11t
before I cou ld do
so the officer adva nced to the bed and his
e'y
es
ove
r my
suffering
wife to the
httle
plle of doll-like
garment
on
th
e
chair beside th e bed. He sud denly S\ \'ore
a ~ l d c a l ~ l e out sh utting the cloor
gc
ntly be -'
hlJ1d
hIm . H e turned
delih
e
rately
and looked
at
me s tIll held by his men
and f
or
the
first
ti m
e seemed
to
not ice
n1\;
cmp ty coat-sleeve. H e n
ext
g l
anced ;t
my ..
cap
t?rs and said
quietly,
'Achtung,
Zmucktreten.' They jumped to attention
and
stepped
b
ack
a pace releasing me
: TOW, vo
u,'
he
said,
~ c l d r e '
ing
me:
ta
ke
th ose m
en downst
airs and give
them
something to eat .
f yo
u
CRn
pro
cure.
some
.hot
water, get it
and leave it
l d ~ th1S
door.'
And
in a
nerfect
lv
Im passlVe voice he added ,
a
nd if I
lI
ear
so m u c ~ as a. pin drop
I'll
shoot th e person
respon
SIble
bke
a dog .' And
with th
at
he
216
turned on his heel a
nd
re-ent ered the
rOOI11
, closing the cloor ill
l11y
st upi
fiecl
face. I l
ookcd
a t
the
mell
bllt th
ey
gave
to ulldersta lld that the officer meant
what he sa id, and that it wou ld be wiser
to
obey his orders
. I n a
trance-like
st
ate
I lid so. I
bronght up
a
can
of hot
water
and knocked at the door. Th e officer
opened
it a
nd
mo
tioned
me to come in .
My
wife
lay
in
bed, he
had wrun g o
ut
a
small
towel in co ld
\I
'a t
er
a
nd had
ban
daged
her
eyes, and
as
I stood sta rin g, he
spoke to her
ge
ntly:
'
Madame
. . . I beg
you
wi
ll not
be ftightened, I am no doc
tor, but
on
my
fath e
r's esta
te I h
ave
often
helpcd \ 'ith the sick
anima
ls . . . and in
t le
lar;'
l)
ing seas n . . . Please,
Madame,
(10
n
ot
make
it
di
fficu
lt
for me
..
. I ask
\'O
ll
to tru st me . . . Vie will forget the
\-\1ar .. . \\'e are
not enemies
You
und
erstand,
Mad
ame, I cannot ge t
yo
u a
doctor
. . . p lease,
Mad ame . . .
A
terrible mo
ment,
JH'sieu , and th en a rack
ing tremor of her
body,
ancl she said
fai nt ly : I
owe it
to
France
pe rh aps
a
Oi l . . .
A
spasm
passed
over the
face
of th e German bu t he rema ined silent
then my \rife wh
i
spered
t
me, Kiss
me,
P:wl
and
now go
o
ut.'
I kissed her
and
stUl11
bled ont of the room. I crouched on
the lowest step for aeons of tim e in the
da rkn ess. Once I hea rd a protest
in
g
\I
'ai l
a
nd then
silence .
..
I must have dozed
off th en I did not reco ll ec t any more
until I felt a tap on
my sho
uld er. I loo
ked
up
at the officer
dazedlv.
H e 'as in his
shirt
sleeves
and \\
'
hite-faced
bllt he
sm iled
gr
imly as he sa id, ' You may come
up
no\\'. , I ran
up
and halted at the door.
My
wi
e
like a
pale
lily
smi
led at me frol11
the
bed and a tin y black head, smud ged
eyes a
nd
button nose, lay in the
curve
of
her a
rm.
'Come
he
re
,
Pau
l darling", and
say
ho\V-do-you-clo
to
yo
ur
so
n,'
she sa id
weak ly. I tottered forward to th e bedside
and
put
my head
aga
ins t h
er
hand a
nd
my
S O ~ l S ,f
ace
wept lik e a chil d.
'Every
thlJ1 g s all rIght, dear,' she
murmured.
The
bRndag-e had been removed from her
face, and her
eyes
shone lik e
stars.
God
and
His Blessed
Mother
sent
us aid
and
\\'ithout the slightest trace of
e m b ~
a s s -
ment
shc
looked to\\'a rd s the officer who
I\l
e
rely
hO\r
ecl
tiffiy in
ack
n
ow
ledjtme
nt
and left th e room . Aft er a few minutes
my
wife sa id,
'Fol low him,
dear and give
THE ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS JOURNAL
him
some
coffee ,
and you
can
bring
llIe
a little of the tinned milk.' I
descended
to the
livng-room, and to my
sw.prise,
M
's ieu,
found
it
empty.
The
Captain and
men had disappeared . I opened the front
door
but
all
was
dark and I dared not
explore
~ u r t h e r
I
was
sorry, I
wo uld
have
wished to
express my
deep
hea rtfelt
gratitude to the German
officer. I
re
turned to the room and wa
rmed
some milk
and
was
about
to
carry
it
upstairs
when
a sudden commot i
on outside
made me
pause. I heard the familiar ping of a rifle
shot, and
an
English voice shout, ' There
they
are,
the swine,' and another shot
rang
out.
I
hurried
upstairs
to my
wife
and
told her not to be
alarmed,
the T ommies
were
coming.
O
h,
Paul ,
th
ey
have
go t
the Captain, they
have
s
hot him,
Oh ,
Paul
,
he
was so
good
to me so gentle
oh, God save him.' . .. ' Hush ,
my
heart,'
I said, ' I will see what is
happen in
g.'
I took th e lamp a
nd
de
sce
nd
ed t
he sta
ir s,
and as
I . open
ed
the door,
dark figur es
approached. Th
ere \I'ere four
British T om mies, and
one
h
ad
his ri'fie
pressed against the
side
of
the
Captain.
He smiled
when
he
sa ,,' me, a
nd
said, '
We
meet again, my friend ' 'Say , wots all
thi s
aba ht
? '
exclaimed
th e l
eader
of the
party, a
corporal. W
e
caught
this
filthy
swine running within a 'undred ya rds of
thi
s 'ouse
and
this 'ere
Boche
keeps on
saying, Be
quiet,
boor,
that
'o
use
needs
it. . . . Wot
the 'ell . . . go
in'
to
attack us the y
'was
. . . Got 'is pals,
th
ough
say,
Froggie, wot's up ?
'A
s
he an
y mo
re friends
of
'is abaht
' e
re?
'
I shook my head speechlessly and suddenly
I
heard
my wife call o
nt,
. Paul.'
'Gentlemen,'
I began
'Detter
have a look round,' interruptcd th e cor
pora l.
Up yo
u
go,
Froggie, and you ,
Sa
nsage, yo
u fell
ers stay 'ere.' In si
l
ence
I led the way still holding the lamp . I
op ened the
door
and
th
e lig
ht
fell on my
wife
si
tting
up
in
bed, flushed a
nd
holding
the baby to her breast. , .. ' Blimey,'
muttered the English
corporal My wi
fe
spoke softl y and
stern
ly ,
'Co rp ora
l, release
that gentleman, he is my doctor, my baby
is not yet an hour old, do you understand?
I
am
English and this gentleman
risked
his life by remaining
to
he lp a defenceless
woman, though an enemy . . . do you
not
see
my
husband is
helpless with one
arm?
. . . O
h, can't you understand?'
. . .
She sank back
then
weakly on the
pillows. The German officer interrupted,
'Madame,'
. .. And
then
a curious
look
came
over
his face,
but
he
drew him
se
lf
up stiffly
to attention and smiled at her,
saying , I ch
kuss
die Hand
Madame
und
zu I hren
Dienstell Ha u
ptmann
Helmut von
Richer,' and
then he just ga
ve a
faint sigh
an d crumpled for
war
d. I did not
kn
ow
he
had
been
shot 'through the lun
g. My
wife was
brave as always. The
English
corpora
l helped mc
to carry out the
Cap
tain .
t
was th en abo ut two
o'clock
in the
morning and a
British
Red
Cr
oss pa trol
had
a rri ved.
Th ey
took
command, but
I
\I
ill
not go
0
11. As
I
J: ave
rem a
rked before
I speak not merely of th e War,
but
you
will
und
erstand why \I'e
have named
o
ur
son
Helmut
.. . in m
emo
ry of a
ga
llant
gentleman.
I tr ust I have not bored you, M'sieu .
Ah , he re comes your good lady ."
O
h,
Jack,"
exclaimed
my wife, y
ou
never
saw such
an
adorable dairy,
and
as
for Madam Malot's linen-press, I am green
""ith envy." \Vell ," I said, I certainly
have enjoyed
my s
moke
and
chat
'with
Monsieur Malot. Thanks
aw
fu ll
y for a
most enjoyable morning. With mutual
good wishes we
macle our farewel'ls, and the
small He
lmut
made his appearance
and
in a
most cava
li
er fashion bent over my
wife's
hand
and
murmured,
Ich Kuss
die
H a
nd
Madame.
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11/23
THE ROYAL ARMY PAY
Obituary
We
regret to record the death s of the
following fo
rmer member
s of the Corps :-
Colonel R. W.
Fa n
sba i\'e, C.M.G. , died
at Bath on 2nq April, 1932,
at
th e ag e of
62. Born on 2
nd Septemb
er, 187 I he
joined the West Riding Reg iment in 1891
and
served
with that reg iment until
tr
ans
felTed to
the Army Pa
y
Departm
ent
in
1898. He
served
in the South African War,
being
awarded the Qu e
en's
Me
dal
with
three
clasps. H e w
as prom
oted Major in
1908. During the
Gre
at War he was tem
porary
Chief Paymaster , fr om F ebru ary
1916 to October 1919, and for his ser vices
was
mentioned in despat
cbes
i.n th
e
Lon
don
Ga
z
ette
of 25th January , 1917. He
\ as promoted Colonel and Chief Pa y
master
in
June, 1923, an d retired
in
August
19
28
.
Lieut.-Colonel
G. H. Sin ger died at Bed
ford on 27th March, 1932, at the age of
8
7 Born
on 13th April, 1845,
he joined
the
Army Pay Department from the l o
th
Foot, in April, 1865.
He
was promoted
Lt
.-Col. in 1899 and reti red in April , 1905 .
Lieut.-Colonel J. F. V . S. Whitmarsh
died very suddenly on the 27th May, 193
2
,
at Aldershot .
He
was born on 18th July,
1869, and received his commission in
Feb
ruary, 1889, in the Royal Marines.
After
serving for twelve y
ears vv
ith that regi
ment,
he
transferred to the Army
Pay De
partment in the rank of
Captain
and
Pay
master, in March, 1901. After performing
the duties of temporary Staff-Paymaster
from
April,
1916, to
August,
1919,
he
was
p ~ o m o t e d
Major
in August, 1919,
and
LIeut.-Colonel on
1st April, 1921. Lieut.
Colonel
Whitmarsh retired
from the Corps
on 18
th July,
1926,
and
since his
retire
ment has been employed as Cashier at the
Command
Pay
Office
at Ald
ershot .
His
sudden
death
took
pl
a
ce
in a bus at Alder
shot while on his way home from the office.
The
funeral
took
place
at
the Military
Ce
metery,
Ald ersh ot, ' and was attended (in
addition to family mourners ) by the
Col
onel
Commandant, Colonel
J.
C. Arm
strong,
C.B ., C.M.G ., Colonel
W.
S.
Mackenzie, O.B.E., and a full
representa
tion from the Officers
and
Staff of the Com
mand Pay Office, Cashier's Office
and Lo
cal
Auditor.
218
Li eut .-Colonel G. G . O 'N. Ray, died at
Bexhill-on-Sea on 7th June, 1932, at th e
age of
72
. Bo
rn
on
4th November,
1859,
he
was commissioned
in
the Royal
War
wickshire Regiment in 1880, and
later
transferred to the Army Pay Department.
He w
as
promoted Lieut .-Colonel
on
4th
September , 1909, a
nd retired
in February,
1917
Mr. P . W. Fernie (la te S .
Q.M.S.
) died
at Billeric
ay
, E ss
ex,
on 27
th March,
1932,
at the age of 53 . H e left the Corps, to
pen sion,
in
December, 1925, after twent y
ei ght and a half years service , of which
twenty-six yea rs was with th e
Corps
.
Mr. J . H oward (late S.Q.l\T.S .) died in
Lo
nd
on on 3rd
April,
1932, at the
age
of
71.
He
left
the
Corps, to
pension,
in
April ,
1903,
aft
er
twent
y-five
years
service.
Mr. J.
Faulks (late S.Q .M.S.) died at
Warrin g ton
on
29
th December,
193I , at
the age of 82. The following
particulars
have been supplied by one of the few re
maining members of the Corps who served
with him.
John
Faulks enlisted on
the 24th
Aug ust, 1870,
in the
80th F oot, the
Franco-Prussian War having roused his
military ardour, and in a very short while
he found himself in Ind ia. He took
part
in the Perak
Campaign on
the North
West
Frontier, India, in 1875 and 1876, and was
awarded the
medal
and clasp for that cam
pai g n. Proceedin g with th e
Re
g ime
nt
to South Africa, he took pa rt in
the
Zulu
Campaign and disting uis hed
himself
at
the Ba ttl e of Ulundi .
In du
e'
cour
se
he became Paymas ter
Serg
eant
and Military
Staff
Clerk,
being
transferred
to the Army Pay
Corps
Oll its
formation 1st April, 1893.
He
was awarded
the
meda l for
Long
Service and Good Con
duct,
and
was
discharged
to
pension
on
3
1st
July, 1901. A couple of yea rs ago he
was a warded the Meritorious Service
Medal
in one
of the vacancies all owed to
his old
regiment,
now the South Stafford
shire Reg iment.
He
was a kindly man, of
a relig ious disposition,
and highl
y
thou
ght
of by all those who came in
contact
with
him.
He
was a member of the old Com
rades Asso
ciation
since
its ormation .
The
deaths
of Mr. F. W .
Sanders
(late
S.Q.M.S. ) and S .Q.M.S. E. E . McConnell
are reported under Chatham
R E )
and
Deptforc1 notes, respecti vely .
THE ROYAL ARMY PAY CO RP
Aldershot
COMMAND
PAY OFFICE,
ALDE RSHOT
Following a l
ength
y period when it has been
.almost impossible
to obtam
co py for th ese notes,
Lh e detn c ment has at las t ren,lised
the
dlfncultles
which beset its Local Represe
nt
a tive and res
p'onded nob ly to the call for
~ w s .
.
A sudden o
utbreak, threatemng
to outflv a.1 th e
oth er epidemics to which
thi
s place has rece
ntly
been subject, is alarming members
her
e. S.Q.M.S.
H. R. Hudson and
Sgt.
F. Lo veder eac h rep ort
the arrival of a son, whil st Sgt . Clark
has
been
pre se
nted
with a daughter. As if all tha t were
not
sufficient
warning
for a.
ny
man we have t o re
port the
rec
ent marriage
of L / Sg
t.
L. Cooper.
Sev eral changes of
st
'1ff
and th e assembly . of a
new
Costing Course--reported
elsewher e - are Items
of note. whilst we
must not
forget co
ngr
atul a
tIOn
s
to Lt.-
Col. R. N.
Hun
t ,
M.B.E
., on his
pr
omotion.
postings.
-Arrivals
in clud e S.Q.M.S. H . Smith
and fa
mi
ly from
Singapor
e,
Sgt.
W. C. L. M
ay
from Barn et and
Sgt
. E . T. Tay
lor
from C
ant
er-
bury
. Th ese last two have ta ken t he pl aces of
S.Q.M.S.
Doherty
(Costing Duties, Central Ord
nan ce De
pot Br
amley) who is now at Pert h, a nd
S.Q .M.S. E .' Shaw (Costing Duties, 1st Cav
alr
y
Bligade) now at Woolwich. .
Sgt.
Carver's
posting from Shanghai to Alder
sh ot has been cancelled .
Costing Schoot.
-T h
e seyent h co urse commenced
on Ma,y 23rd, and co nsis ts of th e follow ing
N.C .
O.'s
from
the
SLations shown: -
Sgt .
H.
Boana s L /
Sgt
. R. S. Le Vey
L / Sgt . J. H. H anso n (Snlisbu, 'Y)' Cpl.
R .
H.H.
P anneill (
Canterb
ury) , Cpl . P. M. Lee
(E xe te,') , and COl]). E.
Double- entry book-keepmg IS the s u b J e c ~ fOl' th e
fir
st
pnrt of t he course and all a re worklllg hard
with a view to si
tt
ing for t he Lond on Chamber of
Commerce
and Roya
l Society
of Arts Examina
tions whi ch will be held in
June
a
nd July
respec
t ively.
We
wish
them
every success.
Capt. H. G. B. Milling joined
the
course on 3rd
Jun
e, 1932, from
York
.
Sergeants ' Mess .
-The
fortnightly whist
~ r l v
and dances proved a popular feature of
the
th ough lack of
support
mad .e
It
necessary .
to
diS-
continue the weekly solo-whist dnv8t;, the
Mess generall y is Aouri shing. . .
A.s forshadowed in th ese notes th e Spnng
Numb
er of
the
Journal , a second dan ce orga n-
Command
21
9
ised by
the
Mess was held in
the
R.E.
Theatre
on 22nd
Mar
ch and was a hu.g e success . On thi s
occasion
arra
ngements were in
the
hands of S.S.M.
Plowman, Sgts.
Fergusson
a
nd
M a r s ~
and
L /Sgts. CooRer and
Ga'7ey
,
and the
preVlous func
tion was so po,Pular th.e
C o m ~ a n ~
that
the
Committee were Illundated W th apphca;tlOns, scores
of which had to
be
refused .
Colonel and Mrs. Mackenzie and the majority of
other memb ers of the Staff and their wives were
present, th e hall being filled to. capacity . As
fore. the F elix Danc e Band prOVided exce
llent
musIc
and the Dan
ce
Co
mmitt
ee are to
be congratulat
ed
on the highly enj oyahle res
ult
of
their
efforts.
On
ce again a team has been e
ntered
for t.he
mand Sergea
nts'
Mess Ten
ni
s League
a:nd
, despite
.h
e very formida ble o
ppO
SitIOn
the
y Wlll
have to
enc
ounter
,
it
is certa in
th
at we Will be able to
put
up
a good show.
Cricket.-
The
weather has
not
been any too kind
to
us cricketers as we e
nter another
season
with
th
e bat and ball. Our first two matches had to
be cancelled owing to rain. Our
third
mat.ch on
a fixture list t hat Rromises an enjoyable season
was playe d und er
better
conditions , and King Sol
chee
ring
us up somew)l
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has settled dow n a.t He me Bay , at least, [or the
time being. This officer had a ttal o[ over 41
year
s'
service, so that his retired p
ay
is both well
des erved and hard-earned, and it is the g
enera
l
hope tha.t he may live long t enjoy it.
The
vacancy in the Direc
ting
Staff has been filled by
Capt
.
C.
L. Boyle, Royal Artillery , who came
hom e from Malta to join the Corp's Oil
prob
ation.
Dep
ar
tures fr om
th
e s
ta
tion include S.S.M . B.
J . B.
Templ
e and Sergeant
Fo
li ey [or
Egypt,
Sergeant Pledger [or H ong Kong ,
Sergeant
'l ay lor
for Aldershot and
Co
rp ora l P ann ell , who had only
been with us two months, on a co urse o[ instruc
tion
at the
Costing School. We trust
that they
all find thei r new sta tions as pleasant. as t he one
they left .
Th e
lm -i
vals of S.S.M. O. G.
Pl
owman, who
was in va lided from Egypt , S.Q.M.S. R.
Scott
from
Edinburgh,
. S
/Sg
t.
H.
Long from
Eg ypt
an d
Sergeant Townsend from Hong Kong . All have
taken up their duties fully confid ent of enjoying
th
e
ir tour
in so de
lightful
a
spot
.
Congratulations are
extended
to Cp . T argett
0111 his promot.ion to his present rallk j to S.S.M.
P.
G. ThompsoD who left this station to go on
probation at Woking j to Sergt.
Wigg
on becoming
t he
father
of a second daughter.
t will perhaps be recalled that me nti on ha-s
b e e ~ made. in previ ous issues of more troops being
statIOned Canterbury, a Cavalry, an Artillery
and then
an Inf antry Unit bein g success ivelv men
tioned. The latest info rmation is that a Cava lry
Regiment will enter into occup
at
ion of
the
Caval ry
Barracks . f this plan material ises, th e social lif e
of
the
garrison will doubtless benefit greatly, Cor
at
p'resent
the
mes ses are very sma ll , and func
tions practically negligibl e.
Bllliardll. It is pleas ing to record th
at
t.he
Sergeants ' Mess,
J?
epot, Th e Buffs, have placed
th elr very good blllia rd' table at th e di sposal of
our staff; t he hosp itality extenued to th em by th e
Pr eS ident and members o[ the mess is alwa ys very
much
appre
ciated. The second of
tT1.e
series of
billiards and snooker was held dUTing Apri l, when
the honours went. to the civilian staff, Serg eants
Plunkett and Lythgoe being 10 ers at bi lli
ards
and
S e r g e ~ n t Happe being unable to r.rogress beyo nd
the seml-fi nal a t snooker. The billi alds co mpeti
tIOn
was won
by
]vlr. R ey
nard
wi
th
Mr . Dobson
as runner-up ;
the
snoo ker
co
mp
etit
ion was
a
Iso
won by Mr Reynard ,
the
runner-up being Mr.
Amos.
c k e t . cricket team
this yea
l gives
pronllse of bell1g
ab
le to pu t. in the field th e hest
eleven 192'2. S.Q.M:S. S
co
tt (r lom
Edinburgh
)
belllg
the
latest. acqUlsltlon. QU ite a formidable
fi
xtu re
li st
has been
dr
aw n up , in addition to
which we
ha\
'e
the
use of an excelle
nt
ground in
Barracks for both
pr
actice pUllJoses and
e s .
Our
p'r
?g ramme opened on Saturday, 21
st
May,
19 32,
~ \ l t h
a mat ch a.
gainst
a neighbourin g v-illage,
ForchVlCh, when,
OWlI1g
to rliverse circumstance s
the
full team was unabl e to
turn
o
ut
notable
absentees being Colonel P aynter, Sergea'nts King
and
H ~ p p e
Mr. Wills. An exciting gam e Ie
suited 111 a wm for
the
o ffi ce ; ollr sid e scor ing 51
rum aga lllst 43 m a ~ e by For dw ich. Although
thi S was a Iow-scoring game some outstanding
222
achievement s were
atta
ined, viz ., S.Q.M.S. Davies
(Dover) too k 7
wi
ckets for 12 r uns S.S.M. Bailey
(F olkestone) made 3 excelle
nt
catches and batted
well for 13 Mr. H. S. S. Amos, who bats
with
th
e idea of slogging every ball t.
hat
comes his
way, scored 21 runs (not
out).
Football.-For
reasons too common to need repe
ti tion, fo ot ball has long ceased to app ear among
our sports items. Then on the 21st
Mar
ch, the
remnants of
the
teams J
past
ages, togeth er with
some of
the
young er bloods, ga th ered to do battle
with the Sergeants o[
the
Buffs Depot. Th e game
was enjoyable, if not exactly excitmg, and ended
in a draw , bot h teams sooring two goals. Spec
tators attended anticipating our downfall but
stayed to realise
that
the Corps may yet
~ r n
to
Canterbury for Army Cup players. Our goals
wer e scored by
Sergeant
Chan tl eT and Percy
Wills . Inspi red by our first effOl-ts , a second
game was so ught, and on th e 5th April we en
d
ea
voured
to
lower the co lours of our former
opponents in a more decisive way.
Our
ambition
was
not
, however, ac hie ved, as
we
were defeated
by .the one goal scored by the Depot Sergeant
s.
Th e followin g re
pr
esented the office in th ese two
gam es ; G oa l L /Sgt. Pannell ;. Back
s
L / Sgt.
Barn shaw
an
d Mr. Amos
j
Half-bac k5'-Sgt. Plun
kett , Sgt. Taylor and P te. Ald erson
Forwards-
Mr. Mml e, L /
Sgt
. L
yt
hgoe, L /
Sgt. Hap
pe , Sgt .
Chan t ler , Mr. Wills and Corpl.
Targett.
Shooting,-A
J-ifle section of tr e Sport s Club wa s
~ o r m e d in November, 1 9 3 ~ subsequently be
co
m
mg affi hated to the Soclety of Miniature Rifle
Clubs , with Club No. 2345. Act ivities commenced
on premises of the Canterbuny Rifle Clu b and
were later transferred
to
the Miniat
ur
e Rifle
Range in The Barracks. It is hOp'ed that next
y.ear it will be found possibl e to fire wit h .303
rifl es on an open range . Our membe
t
ship now
tota ls
18,
which is co nsidered qu
it
e satisfact.ory
fo r so small an office, an d so keen has been the
ent
husiasm of th ese _members
that
th ere is 9\'ery
prospect of an increased number "
taking
aim;'
when
the
next season opens. Of
the
ma tches fired
so f
ar
we have both won an d lo
st
with
the
Depot .
Th e Buffs won twice again
st
t he Record and Pav
Office,
Woking;
lost twice to both
the
Command
Pa y Office . Aldershot. an d
the
Su ffolk Reg imlt.
also .
aga
in
st
the .Cambridgeshir e
T.A
. Monthly
handlCap competltlOns we re held during th o first
fou.r months of the year, and spoons , suit ably in
scnbed. were won by Mr. F . M
ort
im er. Cap
L
Th omas, S.Q.M.S. Mur akam i and Major Nelson_
Th
e
best average
score for
the
whole season wa R
92.66 ga ined by Mr. H. S. S. Am os, who was
awarded a bronze med al.
Other
act ivit ies have
includ ed sweeps a.nd Pool Bull Shoots. Th e fixture
list for. the season commencing 1st October, 1932,
IS .now
ll1
the co urse of
prep
ara tion ,
and
cha Jlenges
wlll be welcomed by
the
Secretary of the Rifle
Sectio
n-Capt
ain F . W. C. Thomas.
Tennis.-Two hard co urts are avai lab le in Bar
ra cks for use by
the
Detachm ent , so
that
there is
every prospec.t , w e a t h permittin g, of the seaSOD
before us being a n enjoyab le one. Although the
number
of players is at
pre
s
ent
lim ited owing
perhaps to this
being the first year, t h ~
court
s
ha ve been . regularly
at
our
di
sposal and ent husinsm
and
pr
ac tlCe will doubtless improve th e form of
th
e
rabbits
and others so far relu ctant to co me
l
TH
E ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS JOURNAL
forward and p'ave
the
way for the first class team
all interested
are
striving to produce. A team
consisting of S.S.M. Bailey, S.Q.M.S.
Da
vis and
Sergeants Plunkett
and
Kil}.g , ent ered
the
E astern
Command Inter-Unit Champi onships (Other
Ranks
).
UnCortunately,
disaster
was
met
all too
soon, for our
repr
es
ent
atives fell
at the
first
" hurdle , when th ey wer e beaten by the Queen's
Bays, Shorncliffe. Ea ch side won two mat ches,
but
at
the
final reckoni ng we were one set down.
Seve ral m
atc
hes with local clubs are anticipated.
Th en th e an nu al visit to
the
Chatham Office will
be made the occasion for a tennis match or two,
if this can managed wit hout interferring with
th e
ma
in item of the
pr
ogram me, viz., cricket.
nnual Outing.-Arrangements are well in
hand for the
St
aff outing this yea r to ta ke ~ c e
on
June
24 t h.
Ha
stings
has been selected as the
venue for
this
occasion an d it is
ant
icipated
that
abo ut 80 will ma.ke up tb e party , leaving Canter
bury by
special ra ilway coach
at
8.30 a. m. and
ret
urning
about 8
p.m.
t is co nfide
ntl
y fore
sh ad owed t h
at
the
efforts now being made
by
the
org anizing com
mit tee
to e
nsur
e a hap.py d
ay
for
on e and all will be entirely fulfilled. A fu ll acco
unt
of
the
outin g will be forward ed for inclusion in
the
next issue .
CHATHAM
ROYAL
ENGINEERS).
Crlcket,-I
n spite of
the
counter
at t
ract ion a.t
Lord s, I thought
quite
a goodly crowd had
assembled around
the
rails
at Burton
Cour t hy
the
tim e we were du e to open
the
season with
a.
ma
tc
h aga .
nst the
London
District
P
a\
' Office .
Admitted the
crowd consis ted mainly of the
dri vers from th e nea
rby
taxi rank , errand boys
and boys
that
were e
rr
an
t,
" dad
s
too o ld for
work and lad s who will nev er grow old
i n ~ it,
still a crowd for all th at, bllt was rather dIsap
pointe d when I was informed
that
the same cl'owci
could be seen " in the sa me pl aces at any old
time of the day or week, or on any old occasion. "
for I certainly thought th ey had turn ed up for
our particular ben efit . H owever , winning th e toss
ou , hosts elected to bat , and before you cO ll d
sa:v
" J ack
Hobinson
they
pro
ceeded
to
introdu ce us
to
all th e possible an d most
imp
ossibl e places in
and
aro
und the gro und
to
whlch a. cri ck
et
hall
can find its way.
Unfortunately,
we h
a.
dl ju st
abo
ut
sta rted p'lay when a slight drizzle sp t in .
Not s
uffi
cient to stop the ga me nor
yet
t,o
damp
Oll"
spirits,
but
quite
-I:.nough
to make
the
out
fi
eld
decid edly greasy and leat her chas ing not a most
delightful
pa
stim e.
I
must
say, how ever , we ha d a very pl easn
nt
aft
ernoon-
the
hospitality of
our
hosts a.nd
the
opportunity of renewing acqu a intances mad e np
fo, f'verything-and if
the
light was dull
the
cricket certain ly was bright.
R esu lt ; Dr aw.
Scores ; LO 1don Dis. 182 for 8 (Dec.), Chatham
123 for 7.
Indoor Games . Th e l\l1lUSements Co mmit.tee is
to
be congratu lat ed all the success of it s
effods
to
int roduce a. new spirit in to the indoor gam es by
means of
competit
ions with local c
lubs and
Serge
ant's
Messes; and
the
clu b members certa.inly
are l e > he cn
ngr
atu.lated on th e re
8/10/2019 1932 Summer
14/23
THE
..R
OYAL ARMY PAY CO
RP
S J
OURNA
L
CHATHAM (ROYAL
SIGNALS)
.
It is reg r
ettab
le
tha
t a
sa
d note should be
st
ruck
at the
commencement of our news for this num
ber in recordi
ng the
illness of our Journal and
O.d .A . R epresentative , S.Q.M.S. W . T .
In
gle, who
is at
pr
esent a
patient
in
the
Ro>,a l e r b e r t Hos
pita
l
at
Woo lwlch.
After
a
r t l l l ~ h t
In .the Royal
Naval
Hospita
l
at
C h ~ t h a m
a.
di agnO SIs of p o ~ -
sible ' l
ate
n t t uberculosIs wa.s
~ I v e n
but
there
IS
rea son to hope
that
a less serIOUS pronoun ce
ment
may probably be given as a result of closer obse
r
vation. To Mrs .
Ingle
and her daughters we offer
our
sympathy
and our hop es
that
better news may
soon be announced.
The first of
our
visits to
other
offi ces was
made
on Friday, June
3rd , when we wer e
the
guests of
the
Woolwich Pay and
Re
cord Offi ce.
After
a
threatening display in
the
morning
the
weather
suddenly assumed an almost tropical asp
ect
whe n
we left
Chat
ham by VariOUS means of conveyance
at
abo ut 12.30 p .m. , and on
arr
ival at Woolwich
abo
ut 2 p.m.
this
condition was
maintained
for
about
an hour , a,fter which we were
treated
to
the genuine Sibjlrian atmosphere for the rema inder
of
our
stay. N o t w i t h s t n d i n
the
sport was ex
cellent and the nip in the au' was mno cuous so
far as the
interest
of the specta tors was con
cerned.
Brief des criptions of
the
games app e
ar
und er
their respective headings,
but
one would n
ot Wish
to conclude this
short
generalis
at
ion
without
re
cording our very
great
appreciation of the Wool
wich hospitali
ty
and