ENGLISH SUMMER
PROMISING HARVESTS TROOPS TO CHANGE QUARTERS (From the official war correspondent with the New Zealand Forces in Great Britain). ALDERSHOT, August 6 After a broken spell in the middle of July, the English, weather has turned again to summer at its best; or summer with the outriders of autumn already in view. Harvest is in full swing; and although here in the south the area under crop is much less than in the more agricultural counties of England, and in Scotland, all cereals promise good yields. Nothing to do with our training, the state of the harvest, but a great deal to do with the country’s war effort, of which for the moment we are part. Tent life continues to be very pleasant, but the War Office is promising parents and relatives here that all troops in the United Kingdom through the winter will be quartered either in barracks or in billets. Transfer is to be complete by the middle of October. We shall accordingly be moving, somewhere, within the next ten weeks. Where and when probably will depend upon the enemy more than upon the seasons.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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189ENGLISH SUMMER Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 7
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