Great War Britain Guildford by Dave Rose

Author:Dave Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750960373
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Thousands of people lined the streets of Guildford to watch the funeral cortège of the first two soldiers to die of wounds at the Royal Surrey County Hospital. The picture is a cutting from the Surrey Weekly Press.

Some families who received letters full of interesting stories of heroic courage and near scrapes allowed Guildford’s local newspapers to reprint extracts from them. The local press did not have the capacity to send its own reporters overseas to battles, so the letters it published provided a vivid – but possibly much edited – eyewitness account of what was going on.

However, even as the first correspondences written by servicemen were dropping through letterboxes, the dreaded telegrams giving news that a man was reported ‘missing’ or even worse, had died, were being delivered.

Lieutenant Robert Scott Pringle of The Queen’s Regiment is believed to be the first Guildford man to have been killed in the war. He died on 14 September 1914 and he is buried in Moulins New Communal Cemetery in France. He was the son of Mr R. Pringle of Ardmore, Manor Road, Stoughton.

WILLIAM HARVEY

William Harvey served as a car driver and despatch rider. He was awarded the Military Medal in 1918. After the war he established Harvey’s department store, became a mayor of Guildford and was made an OBE for his scheme to provide work for the unemployed in the 1930s.

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