Near the Ypres Saliont, in Poper-inthe. in December, 1015' a Soldier Club was opened in a little Bel house, and in it men of all kinds and ranks' mixed together in friends! came to know one another, and made the discovery that what they had In common was greater than their differences. Between the years 1915 and 1918, the Rev. P. B. Clayton was in charge of Talbot House (as it was named in memory of Gilbert Talbot). and after the war he and a band of Survivors re-founded it under Its original name of Toc I, which arose from the fact that in signalling the initials of Talbot House are known as "Toe 11."
'NE, Herald? Photo, Its aims then, as now, were to maintain that spirit of fellowship learnt during the war and to pass into civil life. and to charge this spirit with the challenge of the Gospel and to spread it among all men everywhere. Under the able idership of Padre Clayton, or Tubby," as he is affectionately Known,' it progressed by lees. and bounds, and thanks to his indomitable energy, Toe H to-day has over 1,000 branch unilg in Great Britain, and 500 scattered throughout the Empire
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