22nd June.-~ 
R.A. v. 4th Hussars. 
1. Capt. Ferrar. 1. Mr. Churchill. 
2. » Schofield, 2. Major Peters. 
3. 5, Mackenzie. 3. Capt. Hoare. 
4, Mr. Aldridge. 4. Mr. Barnes. 
The 4th had strengthened their team since last we met them. Capt. Hoare 
was playing particularly well, and they beat us pretty easily by 5 goals to 2. 
LYDD. 
The annual Siege Artillery camp at Lydd was opened under the command of 
Lieut.-Colonel Rainsford-Hannay on the 1st May. 
The following were the staff :— 
Stats Omcery, asa on lense Captain’ Ra bes Benson, 
Gunnery Instructor ... ... ... Major W. H. M. Shewell. 
Lieutenant J. F. Westerman. 
eae uA R. O. Marton. 
The two late recording officers, Lieutenants Owen and Manley have gone 
respectively to the Artillery College and India. 
We have been favoured with lovely weather and all have much enjoyed the 
camp. 
The Ist division R.A. consisted of Nos. 15 (S.T.) and 20 Coys. 8.D. under 
the command of Lieut.-Colonel Barrington-Foote with Captain Fasson as his 
Adjutant. They stayed from 1st May to 5th June, during which time a series of 
weekly concerts were held in the Camp Theatre under the able management 
of Lieut.-Colonel Barrington-Foote and proved of a very high class order. The 
“proceeds were forwarded to the Church of England Soldiers’ Institute at 
Woolwich. 
The men are very comfortably housed in the barracks. The officers are under 
canvas, as the officers’ quarters, though completed, have not yet been handed over 
for occupation. 
The Long Course arrived here on the departure of the Ist division and stayed 
from 6th to 19th June. This is the first time that they have been here by them- 
selves and consequently, the mess being uncrowded, they and all of us were much 
more comfortable than usual. 
The 2nd division R.A. consisting of No. 7-(8.T.) Coy. E.D. and 15 (S.T.) 
W.D. under the command of Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Dalton with Captain M. L. 
Carleton as his Adjutant, arrived on the 19th June and will stay, 7 Eastern, till 
the 25th July, and 15 Western until the end of the season. 
The weekly concerts have been kept up and are well patronised. For the con- 
cert on the 3rd July, we had the valuable help of Major F. B. RB. Toms, B.A., who 
stayed with us for a week and whose versatile powers as a comic singer are well 
known. The proceeds of the 2nd division concerts will be devoted to the R.A. 
Charities. 
During the hours of recreation, cricket, golf, lawn tennis and_stické, 
riding, bathing and biking are much in vogue, the roads being admirably 
adapted for the last named. We have not unfortunately been able to get up a 
great many cricket matches, but we have, so far, been successful in all we have 
undertaken. We played and beat the Hast Surrey Regiment by 120 to 61, New 
Romney 200 for 9 wickets to 56, and Tenterden, (whom we have never beaten 
before) by 166 to 44. We have a very fair cricket team here at present. 
For those of a social turn of mind there are numerous lawn tennis parties 
given by the neighbouring gentry, whilst the golf links at Littlestone are hard 
to beat, and the club lets officers in as temporary members on the exceedingly 
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