On This Day, 24 July 1916

Birmingham Mail

Monday 24 July 2916

ARMY’S GRATITUDE TO BIRMINGHAM

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sclater, commander in-chief of the Southern Command, in accepting the position of a patron of a matinee performance to wounded soldiers and sailors at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, on August 6 writes : –

I take this opportunity of saying how very grateful the Army is for all Birmingham has done, and is doing, for the Army which she has done so much to recruit.