Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 3. p. 497
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THE MEMBER FOR READING.
Lieut.-Colonel LESLIE WILSON, C.M.G., D.S.O., the Member for Reading, has done his bit and a very large bit in the world war. From April 17th to May 27th he was in command of the First Brigade Royal Naval Division. He went to Gallipoli and then to France has been mentioned in despatches and was wounded on November 13th, 1916. Thanks, however, to a splendid constitution he rapidly recovered, and on Thursday, March 8,1917, spoke at the National Service meeting in the Large Town Hall. Never in that building has a man received a more cordial reception.
LORD FRENCH INSPECTS VOLUNTEERS AT READING.
That distinguished soldier Field Marshal Lord French paid the 1st Battalion Berkshire Volunteers the high honour of inspecting them on Sunday, October 8th, 1916. The picture shows his arrival outside the G. W. R. Station. On Lord French's right is Lieut.-Colonel Benyon (Lord Lieutenant of the County) and on his left is Lieut. E. A. Wrottesley (orderly officer).
Lord French's inspection of the Battalion was very brief, his visit to Reading lasting only a quarter of an hour. Travelling from London by special train he had previously inspected Volunteers at Southall and Slough, and later in the day he held similar inspections farther down the line. The troops, who were drawn up in a hollow square, were under Colonel J . K ellie (commandant of the 1st Battalion) and Major Arding (commandant of the 2nd Battalion). The Reading officers included Captain and Adjutant H. F. Kingham, Captain E. P. Batten , Second Lieuts. Walker and T. R . Kent, and Lieuts. S. Oades and E. A . Wrottesley (orderly officer). A Maidenhead contingent was present under Capt. Metcalfe, and Capt. Weatherby and Lieut. Plenty commanded a company from Newbury. A party of Red Cross orderlies was in attendance under Dr. Highet, and music was supplied by the Reading Volunteer Cadet Drum and Fife Band and the Wallingford Volunteer Band. A detachment of Reading men formed a guard on the line. Lord French was received on the platform by the Mayor (Mr. Leonard Sutton) and the Lord Lieutenant (Lieu t.-Colonel J. H. Benyon). Accompanying his lordship were the following Staff officers: Colonel Sir Douglas Dawson, C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Major Brinton , Colonel Golightly, D.S.O., Captain C. G. Bowen, Lieut. Smith-Bingham, Colonel Campbell, C.I.E ., and Major Gunton. Viscount Churchill (chairman) and Major W. W. Grierson (chief engineer) represented the Great Western Railway Company. Lord French, after making the inspection, addressed the battalion and made an important announcement with regard to the future of the Volunteer movement.
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