HIS MAJESTY THE KING having issued His Proclamation calling into
Active Service, under the Act 22 & 23 Vict. c. 40, the ROYAL NAVAL
RESERVE FORCE in which you are enrolled, you are required to report
yourself at once in uniform and with your Certificate R.V. 2 at
12 noon o'clock on August 2nd at the Custom House, St Martin's,
Cornwall.

You will be forthwith despatched to the Naval Depot and should bring
with you any necessary articles.

Should absence from home prevent your receiving this notice in time
to attend at once or at the hour specified, you should on its receipt
proceed forthwith to the Mercantile Marine Office named.

Failure to report yourself without delay will render you liable to
arrest as a Deserter.

Note.--Reasonable expenses incurred in travelling from your home will
be allowed.

By command,
Joshua Johns, Registrar.
Dated this Second day of August 1914.



CHAPTER IV.


THE FIRST SERMON.