Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    P71/28/21/24
  • Title
    Letter number 24 with numerous mentions of local men and events including:
  • Date free text
    20 Mar 1918
  • Production date
    From: 1918 To: 1918
  • Scope and Content
    - on 6 Mar the managers of Biggleswade Council Boy’s School had offered the writer (Harry Read) the headmastership of the school of 250 boys, he had accepted and would leave Stevington on 4 or 5 Apr; - Sergeant Bartram, Walter Warwick, Alec Lacey, Arthur Church, Will Church, Fred Dawson, John Parrott, Walter Aspley and Reggie Ruffhead had all been home on leave; - Sergeant Bert Seamarks had been undergoing signalling instruction at Dunstable and hoped to become a staff instructor; - Sergeant Jim Cox had been moved to a country place in Surrey, which he found dull after London, he had now had 14 months in hospital; - Walter Curtis had been moved but was still near Liverpool, he still had no feeling in his foot, his brother Fred had rejoined Thomas Church at Clipston Camp [Nottinghamshire]; - Murden Goldsmith was well and Walter and Fred Harpin were back in France, C.Sykes had moved again; - a number of men had written very confidently of the result of the German Spring Offensive, Wilfred Jeffs writing vividly of a number of narrow escapes; - Charles and Alfred Warwick were well; - the fighting over in East Africa, Charles Cox had been moving broken down cars away from the line; - the writer’s nephew (Willie Read?)was recovering; - Willie Hulatt of Oakley had had a fractured right forearm and had not made a good recovery
  • Level of description
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