Pike caught at Sutton Park, 1906 [X768/67]
Sunday 9th April 1916: Sapper F. Lenton of the
Royal Engineers is in a Convalescent Home in France recovering from illness. He
writes that he hopes soon to be back in the line but that meanwhile he has been
enjoying “a bit of sport to pass away the dreary time. We have a stream running
through the grounds and we arranged a fishing match, and by gum, fishing too it
was. I and six others contested against a room of ‘Jocks’. We had about three
yards of bottom each and a worm at the end of a line. Well, of tiddlers we were
pulling them out two and three at a time haning to the worm, and after three
hours in the hot sun we counted up our captives, which we had in jam tins of
water. The result was as follows: - My team, 152 tiddlers; the Jocks, 151
tiddlers. A win for England by 1 tiddler!”
Before the war Sapper Lenton worked at a
coachman at Ferguson’s livery stables, Biggleswade.
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