Soldiers in the Field. INDIVIDUAL COMFORTS FUNDS.
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In addition to the General Comforts Funds, many individual funds have sprung up in the last twenty months for various units. Fêtes have been organised, entertainments given, arts and crafts sold, and business ventures started and continued with success to augment the funds of battalions and units for which different committees are exerting individual effort. It was felt that the soldiers would appreciate gifts all the more if they knew they were especially sent for their own particular unit, and regimental flags are made and sent overseas, comforts provided, and any special requests of the commanding officers are attended to wherever possible.
Money is sent when specially asked for, and expended at the discretion of the commanding officers, while the continual upkeep of consignments to the different battalions means an unfailing interest on the part of the women. When the men know that the cases have arrived from Queensland and are consigned to their own particular battalion, a special value is attached to them. The very fact that they have been thought of individually is a pleasure, and from all accounts the cases assume the proportion of Santa Claus to a small boy.
Some idea of the magnitude of the work performed in Queensland, to send comforts to soldiers in the field, is realised when it is known that, in addition to the Queensland Soldiers’ Comforts Fund, the following comforts funds are also in existence in Brisbane:—
2nd Light Horse
5th Light Horse
11th Light Horse
9th and 49th Battalions
15th Battalion
25th Battalion
26th Battalion
31st Battalion
41st and 42nd Battalions
47th Battalion
3rd Pioneers
4th Pioneers
9th Field Artillery
Miners and Engineers
A Letter from France.
France, 3/2/17.
Dear Mrs. S—— and Miss W——
Our Colonel has to-day handed me your most magnificent parcel for distribution to friendless men of my company. The parcel, which was sent by Messrs. T. C. Beirne & Co., arrived in good order, and was greatly appreciated by the men. It really was one of the best parcels I have yet seen. Everything it contained was just what we find it difficult to get here.
(Signed) W. M. Davis, Major, 25th Batt., A.I.F.
And that’s only one of the many appreciative letters for Beirne’s Soldier Boy Hampers that we have seen.
Every Mail for the Front sees hundreds of BEIRNE HAMPERS going to make the recipients happy.
Can we send one for you? No trouble! Just give us your order. We do everything else.
Prices run:—10/-, 15/-, 20/-, 25/- And that means The Postage Paid By Us.
T. C. BEIRNE & Co., “The House of the People.” The VALLEY, : : : BRISBANE.