Compare Compulsory Service with Voluntary Enlistment as affecting the British Army.
Prize winning typescript essay written by Capt (QMS) Ernest Smith, 2nd Bn Buffs (East Kent Regiment), exhibition of work, 1900-1914.
One of 17 documents relating to Capt Ernest Smith, 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment).
Capt Smith served in the Boer War, Hong Kong, India and in France, Egypt and Salonika, World War One.
From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.