From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reading the "Sniping in France" by Hesketh-Prichard WWI writings of start of
British Army sniping, (just got reprint from Ray Riling Books USD34.oo
including air mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On page 58, Artists reference as follows,,,
""Our NCOs, too, were the very pick of the Army,,, There was,,, and Sergeant
Blaikley, of the Artists' Rifles. Sergeant Blaikley, who had drawn for
Punch from time to time, was an invaluable artist, and it was he who drew
our Christmas card - Der Sportsman - depicting a German gassing stags on a
Scottish deer forest.""
As to a time frame, this reference in the book, is that these new NCOs were
brought into the new First Army School of Scouting, Observation and Sniping
(shown in book as First Army School of S.O.S.) was,,, ""For many months the
school was "unofficial," but at last, on the 24 November 1916, more than
fifteen months after I had begun serving as a sniping officer, we were
granted "provisional establishment",,""
The school was situated,,,
""On a high plateau above the village of Linghem (in the general area of the
Pas de Calais),, gave us a range of eight hundred yards and plenty of room
for playing fields, which the Army always consider to be absolutely
necessary,,,""
If, during the remainder of the book there are other references I will post
Tom C
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