Doings of the Volunteers over the Holidays Conditions were not at all promising when the Light Horse and Artillery went into camp on Thursday, March 24. As far as the Light Horse were concerned, their march to Kiangwan and discovery of the camp in the dusk and rain and mud was slightly reminiscent of a little bit of Flanders—but happily only slightly so. Braziers and tarpaulins sufficed to convert a stone-cold matshed into a tolerably comfortable dormitory, and there was the spacious dining shed adjoining with its cosy corner sacred to "Ye Olde Tite Horse" by way of compensation. On the whole, the company contrived to settle down comfortably, not however, without quite a few casualties for the M. O.—fever cases, etc, Captain E. H. McMichael was in command of the Squadron, which went into camp 75 strong, and under his direction a very useful programme of drills, lectures, and firing has been gone through, keeping the men well occupied in the brief time at their disposal. After lectures on Friday, including one by Mr. Sutton on the Stokes gun, a cinematograph picture was shown of the taking of Vimy Ridge by the Canadians.
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