A note from the Editor: The first letter we have from Oliver describes life in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps . This is the only letter we have from his year in the O.T.C. in Berkhampsted. He joined on the 23rd of September 1915, and was discharged on the 25th September 1916, 'in consequence of being appointed to a commission in the General List for the Royal Flying Corps'. Mrs Chas E Pearson Hillcrest Lowdham Notts Reply to No5 Company 1st Bat. I.o.C. O.T.C. Stationed at Birkhamsted, Herts. 10.10.15 Dear Mother As you see I have arrived here & am now in a billet & doing soldiering properly. The date may be wrong but to-day is Sunday & I have just come off church parade. We paraded & were marched to the parish ch. which we more than entirely filled. Some chaps having to be dismissed as there was no room for them. I can tell you the hymns went well. Westminster choir weren’t in it at all for volume & deep bass voices. We were o