There was a paragraph in the Morning Post about Capt. Hanman ‘of the Greenjackets’ which gave him great praise, and another from the Express mentioning Sleggs, an old Institute boy, now a Lance Corporal in the Pals, who has developed into an orator and makes speeches in the Empire, Hippodrome, Shakespeare and elsewhere with great effect.

6 July 1915. Letter from John Sampson, University Librarian, to his wife [Sampson Archive SP8/1/2/10/46]. This week’s war: 49.