Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 577
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BERKSHIRE V.A.D. HOSPITALS.
" Sutherlands" Auxiliary War Hospital, Christchurch Road, Reading, opened on November 2nd, 1916, by Mrs. Benyon, lady president of the Berkshire British Red Cross Society.
The staff at Devonshire Lodge, Bath Road, Reading, formally opened as an /auxiliary Military Hospital by Mrs Benyon on December 2nd, 1916.
NONE TOO OLD, NONE TOO YOUNG.
Hoary age and lusty youth are each assisting to maintain the food supply of the nation, as the two pictures accompanying this paragraph well illustrate. They were taken in Reading, but are typical of daily scenes all over the country. The boy milking is Tommy Smith, 86, York Road, Reading. Every morning he rises at 5.30 and helps milk a dairyman' s cows. He is only eight, but is quite successful at the work, which used to be done by a man who has enlisted. The grizzled veteran in the other photograph is A. Lenney, a labourer
at Little John' s Farm. He is 85 and has worked on the land from the age of seven. His master, Mr. A. D. Woodley, employs a girl of eight, Hilda Simpson, to milk and feed. The little milkmaid can milk five or six cows and hour and is wonderfully useful.
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A boy of eight, Tommy Smith, milks cows for Mr. Lee, dairyman.