Sherlock Holmes Volunteers
"Sherlock Holmes" Volunteers is an article published in The Eastbourne Gazette on 27 december 1899.
"Sherlock Holmes" Volunteers
Dr. Conan Doyle, who made a long stay in Eastbourne a year or two ago, has volunteered for active service in South Africa, promising, in the event of being given a commission in a regiment of horse of, say, irregulars or scouts, to provide his own charger. His idea is that it is hardly fair to ask Colonials, who are all, or nearly all, civilians, to volunteer, and to accept their services, when the same principle is not put into effect in the Mother Country itself. He thinks that a man who is a good rider and shot — as he himself is — would prove a useful addition to the Army, and suggests there are many nien "of the same stamp who would be only too glad to volunteer if they thought there was any chance of the acceptance of such an offer."
