A Soldier's Friend by Megan Rix

Author:Megan Rix
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141351919
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2014-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

When Lizzie and Arthur arrived at Battersea one morning a few weeks before Christmas, Kenneth came over to them holding a newspaper.

‘Have you seen today’s paper?’ he asked, and when they shook their heads he showed them a page from the one he held.

On it was an advertisement asking for people to contribute to a ‘Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Christmas Fund’.

‘It’s been set up by Princess Mary,’ Kenneth told them.

Princess Mary was the seventeen-year-old daughter of King George and Queen Mary.

‘She wants to give everyone wearing the King’s uniform and serving overseas on Christmas Day 1914 a gift from the nation.’

Princess Mary had written a letter explaining the purpose of the fund.

I want you now to help me to send a Christmas present from the whole of the nation to every sailor afloat and every soldier at the front. I am sure that we should all be happier to feel that we had helped to send our little token of love and sympathy on Christmas morning, something that would be useful and of permanent value, and the making of which may be the means of providing employment in trades adversely affected by the war. Could there be anything more likely to hearten them in their struggle than a present received straight from home on Christmas Day?

Please will you help me?

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