It is with great pleasure that we draw attention to
the develop- ment of the Society known as Comrades of the Great War. No society could have had a more romantic origin. One night before an attack, as we read, an officer and a private were watching the splendid affection and comradeship between officers and men, and there and then, touched by the scene before their eyes, they determined that in some way after the war they would try to per- petuate for their country's sake this comradeship of the trenches and the field. The compact was entered upon amid the roar of guns, and now we see the growth of the idea. The aim of the Society is,to foster the comradeship and devotion which have marked the services of the Empire and to implant them in the rising generation. This will be done by the establishment in every town and village of posts or branches, an that no fighting man may ever feel that in the hurry of life he has been neglected, socially or financially. There will be no need for any one to Bay that he ilea " dropped out " for want of a helping hand. The object is not less than a great national cause. It is often said that if the spirit in which men of British birth have fought this war Is lost in the times of peace, the war will have been partly fought in vain. The Comrades of the Great War are in process of binding themselves together to secure that that failure shall never be charged against us.
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