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With today’s internet a wealth of official information is available regarding those who served.
In an age before local radio and television, families often allowed letters to be published in the local press from their loved ones on active service. However, for their descendants the letters reveal a more personal aspect, graphically describing the experience of the people and providing an insight into their personalities. |
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NBT 1917 Oct. 23rd Tue. Aged 24, Driver Edward Smith, the second son of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith, of 12, Tasker’s Row, Edlesborough, succumbed to wounds on Saturday, August 18th, 1917. A letter from his Commanding Officer states that he was engaged in carting stone for forward road making at the time he was wounded. He was waiting on his wagon for his load when a shell burst killed both the horses and severely wounded him. The officer adds; “Driver Smith has been in the section under my command for some time, and I found him always a man of good character and an excellent driver. His death was very much regretted by all in my section, and I have lost one of my best drivers. He was buried in a military cemetery a little west of Ypres. Please express my very sincere sympathy to his mother.” Driver Smith, of the 2nd Reserve Park Army Service Corps, was born at Edlesborough but lived at Dunstable.
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ALSO AVAILABLE IN BOOK FORM AS ‘LETTERS FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR’ FROM WWW. LULU.COM,
PRODUCED WITH THE INVALUABLE EXPERTISE OF ALAN KAY & ZENA DAN. |
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