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But your recital of Loos warms my
heart.
What a full life yours is.
I don't know how you can keep
up the pressure, even with the Belloc -
Buchan Punch poem in front of me
(sent by Johnnie) and my recollection
of your prodigies of labour at
Oxford.
Since I started my letter the
new mortar has proved a distinct
success. I expect I shall have [to]
study it.
I had a jolly day yesterday
lunching with 155 where I met
Brig Gen Pollok McCall & Philip
Guersin Advocate & then had
tea later on with Worrall who
was at Hailebury with me and
is Bde. Major of the Lowland mounted.
I heard a very good a/c
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The 'Belloc-Buchan Punch poem' was a piece of comic verse by Charles Graves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pollok_(British_Army_officer) Served in Gallipoli in 1915.
At Gallipoli (13 July 1915):
'The 1/5th Royal Scots Fusiliers, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel J. B. Pollok-McCall; the 1/7th Royal Scots, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. Peebles; the 1/5th King's Own Scottish Borderers, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Millar; and the 1/6th Highland Light Infantry, commanded by Major J. Anderson, are mentioned as having specially distinguished themselves in this, engagement.' (13 July 1915) https://www.naval-history.net/WW1Battle1503Dardanelles2.htm
Pollock McCall, Lt.-Col.
{temp. Brig.-Gen.) J. B..
5 Bn. R. Sc. Fus. (record from 1917)
https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/103254380?mode=transcription
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