FAC159/4/35

Letter: from Sgt H Bolland, A Company 7th Lincoln's, to Miss Dillingham - writer is replying to letter concerning Miss Dillingham brother Richard Dillingham; - notes he is sorry that he has not answered her letter before but circumstances had not allowed; - notes he will give her the whole detail of what happened; - "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. A shell dropped in the centre of our Platoon wounding four men of course everybody scattered and when we formed up again to go we found that two men were missing. 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 he asked me who I was and whether I would give him a drink and how long would the stretcher-bearers be. As it was dark I asked him where he was hi and he told me and then some stretcher bearers of the North Hants came and took them away"; - comments he doesn't think he can tell her anymore;

28 June 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham,
Bolland, H

letters, World War One, 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment