TREE HERITAGE 



"Some fight their battles all anew. 

 And paint the role in vivid hue. 

 My sweetest memories are of you. 

 My Dug-out." 



Suffice it to say that I was three times smashed up and 

 was finally invaUded from the Army in April 191 8, 

 when after spending the summer doing welfare work 

 and paving the way for the Ministry of Health I re- 

 turned to Cambridge to complete my Forest studies, 

 while at the same time lecturing for the Army School 

 of Education. For this purpose I was attached to Horse 

 Guards Headquarters Lecturing Staff and during the 

 vacations from Cambridge I visited many camps where 

 soldiers were waiting to be demobilized. I found that as 

 the result of reading an eminent politican's speeches 

 about "Homes for Heroes," many of them were under 

 the impression that they would never have to do an- 

 other's day work in their life, but they would be given 

 ten acres and a cow and a little house, where they could 

 live happily ever afterwards. It had not occurred to 

 them that when they returned to civil life they might 

 again have to work. 



The memory of many fine gatherings remains vividly 

 with me. On one occasion when I arrived at a great 

 Military Depot, where I had been advertised to lecture 

 on "Reforestation in Great Britain and How to Obtain 

 Posts," over a thousand had turned up, although attend- 

 ance was voluntary. Of course, first of all, I had to in- 



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