FAC159/4/12

Letter: from Sergeant H Bolland, A Company, 7th Lincoln's, to Miss Dillingham - writer is replying to a letter regarding any information on Richard Dillingham and lists what happened on the night he was last seen; - "On the night of the 25th of November 1917 we were relieved out of the trenches after going about 600 yards we reached a duck board track. At the same time the Bosche started shelling us and a shell dropped in the centre of our platoon wounding four men of course everybody scattered. When we formed up again we found that two men were missing so another Corporal and myself went back to find them and when we got to where the shell dropped we found your brother and another man both badly wounded. I sent for stretcher-bearers while I bandaged your brother up, He was wounded badly in the thigh and two wounds over the right eye. He was quite conscious and asked me who I was and whether I could give him a drink and how long the Stretcher-bearers would be. As it was dark I asked him where he was hit and he told me and then some stretcher-bearers of the North Hants came up and took them away". - notes he doesn't think he can tell her anymore;

1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

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Dillingham, Richard,
Bolland, H

World War One, First Aid, letters, Germans