We have received the following humorous letter for publication in the Chronicle
From a private of the 4 th Company, 4 th Battalion Welsh Regiment, stationed at Scoveston Fort, near Neyland :-
“I have much pleasure in writing you a few lines for the Press, on behalf of some of the Ammanford “Knuts” encamped at Fort Scoveston . There is one thing we are all proud of, and that is to be al together in the same tent in charge of Sergeant Morris the late captain of the Church Warriors, known as “Little Jimmy's Home.”
We have formed a club in our Home, to prohibit the use of naughty words, and if they break the golden rule they are fined for every offence the enormous sum of one halfpenny. The fines are collected at the end of each week, to buy some “teisen lap” for the dear old Tommies. Jack and Will Williams, of Ystradamman Uchaf, are still alive and kicking during their stay on the Pembrokeshire coast.
Jerrison and Parrott, the two stars of the Ammanford Ragtimes of the last season are ready to mow the Germans (“When they come. When they come”). Fred Davies, of the Garnant B-boys, has now thoroughly recovered after his short stay, with a few others of our Company, as the guest of Inspector Davies at the Ammanford Police Station, through a fit of home sickness, and he is once again one of the bulldogs of the Company.
Jack Davies, of Pantyffynnon, is reading his Testament daily, which was presented to him by Ebenezer Baptist Church , and which he is very thankful for.
Idris Williams, of Llandebie-road, another of the “Jail Birds” is doing well with his bedmate, Charlie Grey.
E. R. Williams, commonly known as “Will Defiance, the Counter Jumper,” is getting quite a practical man after his experience as a navvy in the trenches.
We have no more news at present, but we hope to meet the Germans before we return. And now to camp we must go back, good-bye, with love from Jimmy's Home.”
