Mexborough and Swinton Times June 2, 1917

Wath Ambulancemen
Happy Meeting In Salonika

The above are photographs of two Wath men who recently came across each other in Salonika.

In the left is Private Hancock (R.A.M.C.) and on the right is Sapper J.N. Garrett (Railway Operating Division Royal Engineers)

Sapper Garrett writes us:

“Four of us came out with the Wath ambulance party, and we parted after six months training.

One is in Salonika, another in Mesopotamia and two in Malta.

I have just met Hancock here, having come from Salonika with malaria. Please to say I am ready to go back. I was in the R.A.M.C.until lately, when I was transferred to the Railway operating division, because in civil life I was a railwayman Wath Yard, and I wanted railway men in Salonika. I have had some exciting times of the trays out there, what with the Bulger has and the Taubes, but I must not say too much.

I have a Mexborough railway guard for a chum.