Leaflet: Grand Assault- at- Arms.
Advertising an extravaganza of musical theatre, drill boxing and celebration put on by the Artists’ Rifles, 23 March.
The location of the event is ‘Somewhere East of Suez’, the time of the event is listed as ‘About four hours ahead of Greenwich’ and the climate is listed as ‘awful’.
Leaflet also states that, ‘Ladies specially invited’.
From papers collected by Capt Eric Richard Hanby Holmes, 1913-1941.
Hanby Holmes served with the Artist’s Rifles and 6th Bn The Durham Light Infantry.
By the end of the war Hanby Holmes was attached to the Royal Engineers for Army Signal Service.
Papers were collected primarily while serving on the Salonika Front during World War One (1914-1918).