Correspondence
To the Editor, Buntingford Gazette.
Incorporated Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmens' Help Society
Dear Sir,
We are anxious to make known in the County, that the Hertfordshire Branch of the Incorporated Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmens' Help Society, is being revived and put in working order.
The existence of the many organizations which the necessities of the war called into being, such as the United Services Fund, British Legion, Red Cross Emergency Fund, &c., might naturally suggest that the activities of the older society were no longer needed.
Careful enquiry, however, shows that this is not so, and those who deal with the applications for help find many cases among
(1) Serving soldiers and sailors in distress,
(2) Ex-Service men who have seen no War Service or who had enlisted since the War,
which do not come under the Rules of these other Funds and cannot be helped by them, and for which the care of the Soldiers and Sailors Help Society is indispensable, if the County organization is to be complete.
This Society aims at having a representative for each town or village to advise these men, to help get them employment or to put them in touch with other agencies which may be able to help them.
The importance of co-operation with the other Ex-service Organizations is fully recognised, and whenever it is possible it is hoped that the local representatives of the other Societies may be willing to represent the Soldiers and Sailors Help Society, also, as to concentrate the work for soldiers under one head, and to prevent any danger of overlapping.
We hope that this short account of the reasons for the revival of the work of the Society may show that experience has proved its necessity, and that the interest and assistance of all those who care for the welfare and comfort of Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in Hertfordshire may be extended towards making the Society as useful in the future as it was in the past.
All information as to Local Representatives can be obtained from the Hon. Sec., Miss Dorothy Newsam, The Red Cottage, Broxbourne.
Hampden, Alice Salisbury.
March, 1927.
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