Birmingham Daily Post – Friday 21st May 1915 - Driver Wallace R. Pearce, the Redditch and Worcester City footballer, writes saying he is in the thick of the fray in France. The chaplain told them that every battery in their division had been in action and had done splendid work, and added that several high officials had expressed their surprise at the praise-worthy manner in which the Territorial Artillery had acquitted themselves. England was bound to come out top, but more ammunition must be sent and the sooner men at home realised that the better it would be.
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