ABSTRACT
One of Hankey’s last jobs for the OBM before returning to Australia was to officer two summer camps, one before and one after the Bank Holiday week of August 1914. As a sort of farewell present, he invited Will Clift to join him for the holiday week itself on the farm of a family friend, Horace Thirlwell, at Stoughton, between Chichester and Portsmouth. 1 A figure of some consequence in the OBM, but a mere workman anywhere else, Clift’s presence could have been an embarrassment had not Thirlwell ‘more regard for justice and mercy than for convention and tradition’. 2
