ted acts of gallantry in the field won
his captaincy.]

Yesterday I played Soccer for Headquarters against the 15th
Hussars. We beat them 2 to 1. However, I can't work up any
enthusiasm for Soccer. Oh! for a real game of Rugger. Still, the
Tommies--the English ones, at least--think Soccer the only game,
so one must cut one's cloth to one's opportunities. It is
something to get a game of any sort out here. Is the October
number of _The Alleynian_ out yet? I hope they keep their war
list up to date. Our Roll of Honour is as good as anybody's, and
should be carefully attended to.

_October 20th, 1915._

Whom do you think I met the other day leading a column of motor
lorries up to our brigade H.Q.? No less a person than G. P. S.
Clark, the centre three-quarter who scored that wonderful try
against Haileybury in my first year in the team--running and
feinting his way through right from his own line. He is a motor
expert, and has been gazetted to the M.T. branch of the A.S.C.

Is there any chance of my getting the post of A.D.C. to a Welsh
brigadier? If the Welsh division is due out presently it would be
rather a good job. But if it involved my coming back to England
for any length of time I wouldn't take it. I am perfectly
satisfied with my present work, but still would very much like to
become a real combatant. Against the defect of short sight I can
put the following points:

(a) Three months of Active Service, almost invariably in the
neighbourhood of the firing-line; on several occasions right up
in it.

(b) I have always been attached to the Headquarters of a Cavalry
Brigade, have been in the closest contact with the Brigade
Staff, and have taken my orders from the Staff Captain direct--a
very large proportion of those orders about real Staff work.

(c) I have now a real linguistic fluency in French; pretty
useful German also.

(d) I have been acting under the supervision of a Supply
Officer, whose work I do when he is away, and I know the system
of transport and supply backwards.

(e) I have a thorough knowledge of how to make up supplies by
requisition and purchase on the countryside.

(f) On the march I move at the head of the limbers which form
th