Scarborough in the Great War by Stephen Wynn

Author:Stephen Wynn [Wynn, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Great Britain, General, Military, World War I
ISBN: 9781473828612
Google: Zt8ItAEACAAJ
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2018-01-15T03:24:10+00:00

On 19 March 1918 Private Kidd was admitted to the 2nd Western General Hospital in Manchester to be treated for syphilis. He remained in hospital for thirty-six days before being released, but it would appear that he still did not have a clean bill of health as he had to go to a hospital in Bury as an out patient for an unspecified period of time. Whether or not his wife Kate knew of his infection is not known.

Private Tom Kidd was finally demobbed from the Army at Ripon, Yorkshire on 1 March 1919.

On Monday, 7 October 1918 at Scarborough Magistrates Court, Frederick Watkin David Jones, a deserter from the RAMC, was sent to prison for three months with hard labour for wearing Army badges and decorations without authority. He was wearing a discharge badge belonging to a Scarborough man which had been taken from a jacket at premises where Jones had been employed. He wore one red and three blue service stripes and three gold wound stripes although he had never been out of England. He was not entitled to the red service stripe, having joined the Army in 1916 and deserted in February.

The chairman said it was a gross case of deceit. After serving his imprisonment he would be further remanded to await escort, on the charge of being a deserter. He pleaded guilty to both charges.

In November 1918 within a matter of weeks of the signing of the Armistice, Scarborough found itself embroiled in the thick of the political arena, with the new parliamentary seat of Scarborough and Whitby coming into being as part of the North Riding of Yorkshire division. The new seat came about as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1918, after the Boundary Commission of 1917, albeit a somewhat strange moment in time to form such a body during a time of war when its final outcome was far from clear. Prior to the formation of the new constituency there had previously been three parliamentary seats which covered the same area: Scarborough, Whitby and part of Cleveland. The new Scarborough and Whitby seat covered an area with a population of about 73,000.

Mr Rowntree, the former Liberal member, had changed sides and accepted the Labour nomination to be its new Member of Parliament. The Hon. Gervase Beckett, represented the Coalition Conservative Party and had been the previous Member of Parliament for Whitby since 1906. The 1918 General Election saw those newly selected MPs being elected to Parliament on 14 December. Beckett was duly elected to represent the newly formed parliamentary seat, his previous military service no doubt helping his constituents decide who best to vote for.

When asked what people should expect from peace, he replied that in the first instance the expectation should surely be that the history of the previous four years, should not be repeated.

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