From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 3rd October 1914:
Codford. Kitchener’s Army In Camp.
Last Sunday a glorious sunshine was tempered by a light, health-giving breeze. In and out among the hundreds of bell tents and up and down the long camp lines stretched over the broad acres of pasture land around Codford sunbeams and wind-eddies played hide and seek . . . . . . Could the sweethearts or wives of these men of the North have seen their charmers learning the arts of soldiery in this delightful Wiltshire glen, it would hearten them in the loneliness which must be theirs till Jock and Joe, Harry and Ned come back to their native heath once more [and so on for a column and a half . . . . . ].