Wounded soldiers go boating (1915)

Post date: Apr 25, 2014 4:19:58 PM

Medway archives reference S/MN/AC22/18

Handwritten letter on printed letterhead

BOATS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, CANADIAN CANOES AND MOTOR BOATS LET ON HIRE

E. AVERY

Boat, Punt, Launch and Canoe

Builder and Proprietor

Undercliffe,

Maidstone

And at TOVIL BRIDGE and WATERINGBURY

1st July 1915

Dear Mr. Carrick,

Ad you are perhaps aware, we have in Maidstone at the different hospitals, a great number of wounded soldiers & it is on their behalf I write, to know if the Conservancy Board will permit them to pass through Farleigh Lock free. It is this way, I have placed my motor boat & a large tow boat at their disposal one afternoon a week accommodating about 30 men & they thoroughly appreciate it. There are one or two gentlemen who will take some about once a fortnight, it is they who suggested that perhaps you would allow a free passage to the wounded through the lock (Farleigh) as whatever is saved in that way the men can have in trifles like fruit, tobacco etc.

Thanking you in anticipation of a favourable reply

I remain

Yours faithfully,

E. Avery