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This book was inspired by the authors discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany. This resulting volume offers a vivid account of the physical and emotional experiences of seventeen British soldiers whose letters survive. Drawn from different regiments, social backgrounds, and areas of England and Scotland, they include twelve officers and five ordinary Tommies.
The book explores the training, journey to France, fear, shellshock, and life in the trenches as well as the leisure, love, and home leave the soldiers dreamed of. Fletcher discusses the psychological responses of 17- and 18-year-old men facing...
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Copyright 2013 Anthony Fletcher
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fletcher, Anthony.
Life, death and growing up on the western front/Anthony Fletcher.
pages cm
ISBN 9780300195538 (cl: alk. paper)
1. Great Britain. ArmyHistoryWorld War, 19141918. 2. World War, 19141918Social aspectsGreat Britain. 3. World War, 19141918Social aspectsEurope, Western. 4. Great Britain. ArmyMilitary lifeHistory20th century. 5. World War, 19141918Personal narratives, British. 6. Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force. 7. SoldiersGreat BritainCorrespondence. I. Title.
D546.F54 2013
940.4'8141dc23
2013010439
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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In Memory of Reggie, Clare and Delle
Chanctonbury Ring
I can't forget the lane that goes from Steyning to the Ring
In summer time, and o'er the Downs how larks and linnets sing
High in the air. The wind comes off the sea and oh! the air
I never knew till now that life in old days was so fair
But now I know it in this filthy rat infested ditch
Where every shell must kill or spare and god knows which
And I am made a beast of prey and this trench is my lair
My God I never knew till now those days were so fair
And we assault in half an hour and it's a silly thing
I cannot forget the lane that goes from Steyning to the Ring
J OHN S TANLEY P URVIS , 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
2 December 1915
A stone with these words was placed in Mouse Lane by the people of Steyning in the year 2000, in celebration of their inheritance.
Contents
List of Main Characters
Letter Writers
Second Lieutenant Yvo Charteris (18961915), Grenadier Guards
Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland Feilding (18711945), Coldstream Guards, Connaught Rangers, London Regiment
Captain Graham Greenwell (18961970), Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Captain Julian Grenfell (18861915), Royal Dragoons
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Hermon (18781917), King Edward's Horse, Northumberland Fusiliers
Private Peter McGregor (18711916), Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Captain Billie Nevill (18941916), East Surrey Regiment
Lance Corporal Cyril Newman (18931978), Queen Victoria's Rifles, London Regiment
Private Alec Reader (18971916), Civil Service Rifles, London Regiment
Second Lieutenant Ernest Kennedy Smith (18921915), Artists Rifles, The Buffs
Lieutenant Wilbert Spencer (18971915), Wiltshire Regiment
Captain Lance Spicer (18931980), King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Sergeant Will Streets (18851916), York and Lancaster Regiment
Private Jack Sweeney (18891961), Lincolnshire Regiment
Lieutenant Herbert Trench (18921971), Honourable Artillery Company, Army Service Corps
Major Reggie Trench (18881918), Inns of Court OTC, Sherwood Foresters
Diarist
Captain Charlie May (18891916), Manchester Regiment
Illustrations and Maps
Figures
Ernest Smith, Our billet at Bailleul, undated. Reproduced courtesy of Benjamin Cobb.
Ernest's room at cadet school, Blendecques, June 1915. Reproduced courtesy of Benjamin Cobb.
Reggie Trench, letter to Isabel Trench with attached poppy, 16 May 1917. Trench Archive.
Reggie Trench, field postcard to Clare Trench, 4 May 1917. Trench Archive.
Herbert Trench, Ypres Oct. 1915, undated. Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.
2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, dinner menu, 18 August 1917. Trench Archive.
178th Brigade, Sherwood Foresters, dinner menu, Chteau de la Haie, 18 October 1917. Trench Archive.
Billie Nevill, We all went into Amiens on Saturday, 17 February 1916. Reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum, 66/40/1.
Reggie Trench, D Company headquarters on the march by 2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, across to the lines, 9 March 1917. Trench Archive.
Robert Hermon, letter to Ethel Hermon, 4 May 1916. Reproduced by permission of Anne Nason.
Reggie Trench, combined leave and railway ticket, from France to Twyford, Berks, 18 December 19171 January 1918. Trench Archive.
Rowland Feilding, On the Somme, 1916. Reproduced by permission of Spellmount Publishers Ltd.
Four leaf clover sent by Ethel Hermon to Robert Hermon, 11 August 1916. Reproduced by permission of Anne Nason.
Plates
Reggie Trench, Lafayette, 1915. Trench Archive.
Members of the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps in Ashridge Park, Berkhamsted, 1915. Trench Archive.
Sheffield Pals Battalion at Bramall Lane Football Ground, September 1914. Victor Piuk, A Dream within the Dark, Derbyshire County Council, 2003.
Lieutenant Herbert Trench with Army Service Corps 363 company, Ypres Depot, 1916. Trench Archive.
Private Alec Reader and his family. Reproduced by permission of Doug Goodman.
Private Jack Sweeney. Reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum, DOC 842.
Sergeant Will Streets. Reproduced by permission of Harold Streets.
The Wedding of Reggie and Clare Trench, 28 January 1915. Trench Archive.
Lance Corporal Cyril Newman in the trenches. Reproduced by permission of the Reverend David Newman.
Captain Graham Greenwell. G.H. Greenwell, An Infant in Arms, Allen Lane, 1972.
Julian Grenfell by Violet Rutland, 1909. Nicholas Mosley, Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of his Death, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.
Captain Lance Spicer. Reproduced by permission of Sir Nicholas Spicer.
Captain Billie Nevill. Ruth Harris, Billie: The Nevill Letters19141916, Naval and Military Press, 2003.
Lieutenant Colonel Rowland Feilding. Reproduced by permission of Caroline Gordon-Duff.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hermon. Reproduced by permission of Anne Nason.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hermon with his children and dogs, 1915. Reproduced by permission of Anne Nason.
Lance Corporal Gordon Buxton. Reproduced by permission of Anne Nason.
Captain Ernest Smith. Reproduced by permission of Benjamin Cobb.
Captain Charlie May with his wife Maud and daughter Pauline. Reproduced by permission of Gerry Harrison.
Private Arthur Bunting. Reproduced by permission of Lieutenant Colonel Adrian Bunting.
Janet McGregor. Reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum, HU 38371.
Private Peter McGregor. Reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum, DOC 840.
Yvo Charteris. Reproduced by permission of the Earl of Wemyss.
Wilbert Spencer. Reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum, DOC 841.
Delville Wood. Rowland Feilding, War Letters to a Wife, France and Flanders, 19151919, Medici Society, 1929.
The Ruined Village of Wytschaete, 8 June 1917. Rowland Feilding, War Letters to a Wife, 19151919
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