Letter denying permission to leave the NER and join the Grenadier Guards, 1914

Letter from the Divisional Locomotive Superintendent J.H.Smeddle at York to Acting Locomotive Clerk Edwin Wolstenholme at Malton Shed denying his request to leave the NER and join the Grenadier Guards, arguing that the railways have become a branch of "the National Service," 10 October 1914 [misdated as 10 September].