Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Saturday 25 March 1916, page 17


RECRUITING.'

Yesterday ES men were accepted at Victoria Barracks. Eighty-seven men volunteered for service.

Among the recruits who offered themselves for enrolment at Victoria Barracks yesterday was a youth of 20, who stood 5ft 10in high, and weighed 12 stone 3 pounds; still, he failed to pass the medical tests.

Other good men who were accepted, however, were to be found in a railway clerk, a musician, a platelayer, two cooks, a farmer from Wyong way a bootmaker, two bank clerks, a stonemason, a clerk from the Department of Lands, and one minor from Lithgow, and another from Helensburgh. Five dental mechanics applied for enrolment, a loco, driver from the State Government Railways, several shop assistants, a baker, a station hand from Cowra, with a mate in a similar position from Coonabarabran, a lines-man from the Public Works Department, an engineer, and a waiter from the People's

Palace.

Major H. G. Edwards, of the University Scouts, recently on the Censor's Staff, in this State, has taken up duty as officer command-ing Rosebery Park Cainjjj

Surgeon-Major Brooke Moore left Bathurst for Sydney on Thursday. A contingent of armed troops from the local camp, headed by the camp band, assisted In giving the officer a send-off at the Bathurst station.

Captains W. P. Martin (43rd Infantry), W. Sneddon (13th Infantry), W. U. Alley (11th Light Horse), M. S. Kennedy (6th Light Horse), A. H. Wilkinson (6th Light Horse.. E. A. W. Hudson (7th Light HOPSON), P. Connolly (28th' Light Horse), and T. N. Johnstone (6th Light Horse) have passed the course of Instruction under the Defence Act for the rank of major.