Sporting Offer: Lord Mottistone’s Promise to Yeomanry: For every “Terrier” – 2s: Presiding at the annual reunion dinner of the Hampshire Association of Yeomen at the Southwestern Hotel, Southampton, on Saturday, Lord Mottistone, C.B, C.MG., D.S.O, the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, said the county was lagging behind in its attempts to obtain recruits for the Territorial Forces. “In Hampshire we are 2,000 short in men,” he said … … (offers to give 2s to the Benevolent Fund for each new recruit) … … Lord Mottistone was replying to the toast of the Association, proposed by the Mayor of Winchester (Major J. R. Pinsent) who deplored the way in which, for military purposes, the horse was being replaced by mechanized transport. … (continues) …
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GRO0528 Devonport: John Ryland Pinsent: 1888 – 1957