Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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14 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD I J . . Contnbutions y at EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS HOME I-Written by Lieut. Andrew Fleming I am late this week because we have been exceptionally busy. We had an inspection on Sunday and spent most of last week getting ready for it with the result that by Mon- day when the inspection was over I had all the monthly re- turns and war diary for August still to do. Then the Major is sick again and I have just that much more to do. You see when he is on the job he runs into town every morning and deposits the canteen money in the bank, gets the mail and does all the odd jobs so that when he is away I have to do all that and it takes up a couple of hours every morning. Anyway last week we shut down the Mill on Wednes- day night and did not start her again until Monday morn- ing. Thursday we picked one hundred and twenty men from the company and took them to a nearby soccer field and began to brush up their foot drill and marching for the coming inspection. Naturally a great many of them were rather rusty and we broke them up into small squads for the morning. In the afternoon we went through the whole ceremonial drill as it was to be done on the inspec- tion on Sunday. We took great pains in making the men wheel without bulging when in column of threes by placing three stakes in the ground at the point where they changed

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 13 Mr. L. L. McMurray has sent sets of the National and Canadian Geographic Magazine to the School, which have been in much demand. it if :lf if if Mrs. R. C. H. Cassels and Mr. F. G. Osler continue to send magazines to the Schoolg their arrival is always eager- ly anticipated. i lr 1' 1 .nl i A 7 , G axy Im H I n ,I ,A v-'um' , x I fi' I-'va 1.25- . , 'fax if -A ix ,ww a- -1,4 N tra'-2' Lflz' 2 ff'f'l,f' 1 .X ph-V Avvqxlg' A - 1,5 F H 711- 1 - 'Q-vrfj X Qi.,-Q. ,ll1,f'e',,-Q, V , . - '. YH ' I-'5lx2'2. if irq. ' W yjjfiwyqs, ,' ' ,ff i . .15.:'.1.4fu -pw fl lZ':,gf.'f N Hayle' - ' .. zfilxff BV- ': N Ji- lm 371. ' '14 x V X xi . I :X : .. ul X eff? -i I. S. Smythe

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 direction. At four-thirty we were all pretty tired and glad to march the two miles back to camp. It was a very hot day and the sun shone all the time. Friday we paraded on the field at nine-thirty with the other four companies in the district, and stayed there all day, each company bringing a haversack lunch. Luckily it was another nice day and apart from the excessive heat we were at least spared the rain which one usually expects inthis country. In the morning the Parade Sergeant-Major put the men through their paces and in the afternoon We had a dress rehearsal with the officers in their positions. We had a colonel from the Camerons on the field whose battalion had already been through this sort of inspection and he gave some very useful hints. At five, we dismissed and all the companies returned. The band was out twenty- three strong and was practicing the General Salute and some pieces for the march past. Friday night everybody retired early. Saturday morning reveille was at seven-thirty and there were no parades in the morning until eleven when I had the one hundred and twenty turned out in their dress for the next day just to make a final check up on hair cuts, battle dress and the web equipment. The men were to parade just in battle dress and anklets with their respira- tors and tin helmets slung, so the business of checking up on their dress was not too difficult. In the afternoon most of the company were taken to a nearby town to watch sheep dog trials, which are quite famous in this part of the country. The trials take place in a large field. The shepherd and his dog stand at one end while three sheep are let loose at the other end. It is the job of the dog to herd these sheep through two fences with a very small opening and then herd them into a pen. After that they are let out again and he has to separate one from the other two which is quite a difficult job. The shepherd stands in the same place all the time and whistles directions to the dog. It is really wonderful to watch the intelligence of these dogs in