Desert Odyssey of a British Soldier Escaping the Legion
Clarence Maxey 22, an ex-Coldstream Guardsman with three Great War decorations, returns to Sheffield recounting a perilous trek across the North African desert to Oran after fleeing the French Foreign Legion. He describes brutal conditions, desert peril, a German soldier’s fate, and surviving on berries for days before securing passage home via the British Consul.
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Clarence Maxey
Sheffield
French Foreign Legion
Maxey
Coldstream
Legion
Mr. Maxey
Légionaires
Oran
Garden sowings and manuring tips from a garden column
A garden column lists flowers and vegetables to sow in open soil and under glass, detailing how to use manures without overreliance on nitrogen. It advises pit composting for kitchen waste, warns against fresh manure, and highlights decorative shrubs like Retins plumosa as attractive conifer specimens for pots or tubs.
Courtyard Plant Options for Tub Work and Specimens
Catalog notes various plants for tubs and specimen use in courtyards and large lawns. Ficus Nitida replaces Mandarin trees. Cycas revoluta hardy for stone in ponds. Abies for spruce from Norway. Ligustrum Elegantissimum Golden Privet trimable to sizes. Cupressus Lawsoniana Aurea, Golden Cypress, with bright foliage.
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Norway
Seasonable vegetable seed packets from Old Garden Firms
Shepherds offers five mixed seed packets for small gardens. The 53 varieties include 8 pumpkin, 20 tomato, 8 watermelon, 10 cucumber, and 7 rock melon types. Free post for the set or single packets at 2/3. request the 2/3 Vegetable Offer and mention the paper.
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Shepherds
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