Bristol Evening Post – 23 June 1964
A BADGE OF FLOWERS THAT TAKES THEM BACK FIFTY YEARS
Weymouth floral display in the Greenhill Gardens – a feature always popular with visitors – this year is an artistic and skilfully made replica of the Old Contemptibles’ Association badge, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I.
The work is a tribute to gardener Dick McGinn, who has done many floral lay-outs in the past. Weymouth Branch of the Old Contemptibles’ Association is the only one in Dorset (sic). Proud of Dick’s efforts are members like Jack Coleman, the President, who won the D.C.M. for bringing in wounded men under heavy fire…. like Wally Shonfield, the Secretary, who was mentioned in Sir John French’s dispatches.
Of the 160,000 men who landed with the Army in the first months of 1914 only about 5,000 are still alive today.
Old Contemptibles' Association Scrap Book 