London Evening News
BRITAIN’S SHOW CAMP.
Although War Office sanction for a second Sportsman’s Battalion was only received on Saturday[1], two hundred men have already applied for enrolment at the headquarters at the Hotel Cecil.
The first battalion are now in huts at Hornchurch, which is called the “show camp of Great Britain.”
The estate upon which the men are encamped was a private park of eighty-five acres, including a mansion, which is now the officers’ quarters.
This place was owned by the father of the battalion’s first recruit[2], and Mrs. Cunliffe Owen, who was the originator of the battalion, got permission for the men to encamp there.
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