Post by BereniceUK on Apr 6, 2017 10:44:44 GMT
Finsthwaite Men in the Mediterranean.
Pvt. Harold Stone, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, has been in a hospital in Birmingham since the latter part of January suffering from the effects of typhoid fever, contracted in Gallipoli. Pvt. Stone also got slightly frost-bitten during the great storm in the peninsula, when he and others were in the trenches up to their necks in water. - Writing from one of the Ægean Islands some time after the evacuation of Gallipoli, Lieut. J. F. Hoyland, only son of Capt. Hoyland, of Stock Park, Lakeside, says: "It is nice being away from shells and bullets once more; you can't imagine what a relief it is. One never seems to feel the strain when one is in the fighting line half as much as the relief one feels on getting away from it."
(Westmorland Gazette, 18 March 1916)
Pvt. Harold Stone, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, has been in a hospital in Birmingham since the latter part of January suffering from the effects of typhoid fever, contracted in Gallipoli. Pvt. Stone also got slightly frost-bitten during the great storm in the peninsula, when he and others were in the trenches up to their necks in water. - Writing from one of the Ægean Islands some time after the evacuation of Gallipoli, Lieut. J. F. Hoyland, only son of Capt. Hoyland, of Stock Park, Lakeside, says: "It is nice being away from shells and bullets once more; you can't imagine what a relief it is. One never seems to feel the strain when one is in the fighting line half as much as the relief one feels on getting away from it."
(Westmorland Gazette, 18 March 1916)