Welcome to this week’s Trench Lincs. Are you attending the service of re-dedication at Cherry Willingham today, 12 noon? If you are, please come and say hello!
I hope you will all find something of interest below and I look forward to receiving any news, stories or queries in the coming week.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
The next meeting of the Lincoln and North Lincs WFA Branch will be held at 7.30pm on Monday February 24th – When Andy Stewart will present “Armistice Day 1918: Where The Guns Didn’t Stop”.
The venue will be the Royal Naval Club, Coulson Road, Lincoln, LN6 7BG. A warm welcome awaits you. New faces always welcome and assured of a warm reception.
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The East Midlands (Nottingham) WFA Branch meets again on Friday 14th February – When Dr. Scott Lindgren will speak about naval warfare in his talk “Ocean Greyhounds – The Battle of Dogger Bank, 1915”.
The talk will be held in St. Peter’s Church Rooms, Church Street, Ruddington, Nottingham, NG11 6HA with a start time of 7.30pm. Everyone welcome.
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The Spalding and South Lincolnshire WFA Branch will next meet on Thursday February 27th – As at Lincoln earlier in the week, Andy Stewart will present “Armistice Day 1918: Where The Guns Didn’t Stop”.
The venue is Spalding Baptist Church, Swan Street, Spalding, PE11 1BT with a start time of 7.30pm.
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The Leadenham Military History Group’s next meeting will be on Tuesday 25th February, at Leadenham Village Hall with a start time of 7.30pm.
The evening will involve an Interactive Workshop – “The Air Battles In The North Of England, 1940.”
This will be an interactive discussion where participation is encouraged but is not compulsory. Come along and play the role of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding or simply buy a beer and sit and listen.
You can also click on this link to see the Leadenham events up to August 2025.
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Next month will see the 2025 series of lectures at the Friends of the Lincoln tank Group start once again.
All meetings on a Thursday night at the Royal Naval Club, Coulson Road, Lincoln, with a 7.30pm start time.
March 13th - Alwyn Killingsworth will speak about "Lt. Bond and tank 743."
"The 15TH September 1916, the date on which tanks were first ever used in modern warfare. This is the story of one of the tank commanders who fought on that day. Leonard Charles Bond was the commander of tank 743 at the battle of Flers. Although born in Gravesend Kent, there is a very strong Lincolnshire connection to his story as, indeed, there is to the battle of Flers itself. The presentation will show what the contribution Leonard, and tank 743, had to the battle and how he went on to have a full military career. Oh and yes he had two brothers who also had distinguished WW1 service and whose stories will be touched on."
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Andy Blow has been in touch and I am delighted to let you all have details of his and Richard Pullen’s next two talks. Andy writes; ‘Please be reminded of two more dates on Tank Tour Two when Richard Pullen and I deliver the story of the Lincoln tanks with old film and images.
We will be at Newark Library on the afternoon of March 12 (subsidised, £3 only). On Friday night, March 14, we will be at Nettleham Village Hall for an event we are promoting with kind help from the Hall committee. Tickets £10. In each case ticketing is via Eventbrite.
Click here for Newark tickets. Click here for Nettleham tickets. Thank you.’
I shall attend the event at Newark on March 12th. Does anyone want to join me?
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I have booked a group visit for Wednesday 19th February at 10.30am to the collection of Derby Museums, The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BS. There are a number of museum halls that can be visited on the day but the main attraction for our visit is the military museum which showcases The Royal Lancers, The Sherwood Foresters and the Derbyshire Yeomanry.
The Soldiers’ Story - Derby Museums | Derby Museums
Parking is only 50m away from the museum at Parksafe on Bold Street, Derby.
It is now one year since our first outing last February to the Newark Civil War Museum and I hope that you will support this visit to Derby.
So that I can confirm numbers with the museum staff, please let me know if you will be attending and I am also happy to arrange car sharing etc.
I look forward to hearing from you. The party is currently quite small, are there any further takers?
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I am very pleased that last week’s TL received a good press from the readers and I have a number of comments and articles that will help to tie up loose ends.
Firstly, Matt Colley dropped me a line with his final thoughts on the mystery of Bertram Benjamin Johnson, the lone name on the memorial at Shelton, Notts. Matt comments; ‘Following today’s TL, I recalled that when I searched last week there was just one view - see at the bottom of the screenshot - of this record. Maybe it was Mike Credland when he had a look?
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My point is that Johnson has a solitary memorial in England and is remembered on a CWGC memorial on the Western Front and was not being remembered by anyone until you found his memorial. The result is that Bertram Johnson has been remembered and the entire TL audience has thought about him.
As it should be!’
Exactly Matt. A point well made. We will endeavour to share as many life stories as we can each week in Trench Lincs.
I hope you will remember that there is a service of rededication being held today, 9th February at 12 noon, to rededicate the Cherry Willingham church yard memorial gates. Last week we were indebted to Chas Parker for this news and photos of the new gates. This week we are thankful to Chas Anderson, who has kindly sent in this picture of the memorial plaques that reside within the church at Cherry Willingham.
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I aim to attend later today and will report next week.
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Alwyn Killingsworth was taken by mention of ‘Woodbine Willie’ last week, the Army Chaplain who reputedly gave away 850,000 cigarettes to the lads in the trenches. It prompted Alwyn to note; ‘I have just caught up with this week’s edition of TL and, as usual, a full edition full of good reading.
It seems quite a coincidence that you are covering Andrew Thornton's blog on the Lincolnshire branches of the Old Contemptibles. I believe this may be because Andrew is preparing his talk to be given to FoLT in September of this year. Thanks for pointing that out in TL. [My pleasure – Ed] I hope it will be quite a fascinating evening, particularly when you see what he has unearthed so far.
The Kennedy photo was also of interest because he had a major influence on another hero of mine - The Rev. T. Hardy VC. In 1916, at the age of fifty-four, a slight, short sighted, diffident unassuming country vicar became an Army Chaplain. Theodore Bayley Hardy was destined to become the most decorated non-combatant in the First World War. He was to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the D.S.O., and the M.C. He was attached to the 8th Lincolns and sadly, he was to die of wounds only a few days before the Armistice.
The book entitled "It's only Me" by David Raw tells his story and it is a book I would recommend. Available through Amazon (and other outlets) it can be bought for a few pounds.’
Thank you Alwyn for the reminder about Bayley Hardy. We have covered his story in the past in Trench Lincs but it is always good to remind ourselves of the dedication and sacrifice of Chaplains, like Bayley hardy and Studdert Kennedy. As you may imagine, I have the Bayley hardy book and like Alwyn, I can recommend it to you.
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Whilst on the subject of Victoria Cross winners who were ordained priests, I can also recommend that you read about the Reverend Bernard Vann VC. Vann was killed on 3rd October 1918 whilst commanding the 6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters as he chose the route of a combatant soldier. I have walked the ground on several occasions where Vann was killed at Ramicourt and can thoroughly recommend this book by Charles Berresford.
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As ordained Priests, they were remarkable men, and there are two further VC winners in the Great War who were priests, these other two non-combatant VC winners were Edward Noel Mellish and William Robert Fountaine Addison, neither of whom have we covered in Trench Lincs to date, I believe.
Here are their citations:
MELLISH, Edward Noel Captain, The Reverend T/Chaplain, Army Chaplains Department – 27th - 29th March 1916 – During three days of heavy fighting at St. Eloi, Belgium, he went repeatedly under heavy and continuous shell and machine gun fire to tend and rescue wounded men. He brought in ten badly wounded men on the first day, twelve on the second and on the night of the third, took charge of a party of volunteers who went out to rescue the remainder. He is said to have carried a prayer book under his arm at all times.
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ADDISON, William Robert Fountaine, The Reverend T/Chaplain, Army Chaplains Department – 9th April 1916 – At Sanna – i – Yat, Mesopotamia, he carried a wounded man to the cover of a trench and assisted several others to the same cover after binding up their wounds under heavy rifle and machine gun fire. By his splendid example, he encouraged the stretcher bearers to go forward under heavy fire and collect the wounded.
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My good friend Bill Roffey lives near Hayfield where I was walking last week and he writes for us; ‘Another excellent read this week. I know Hayfield well, its near me and the route up Kinder Scout I have walked a number of times. As well as being the scene of the Kinder mass trespass in the 1930’s. Hayfield has another claim to fame. It is the home village of the late Arthur Lowe, Captain Mainwaring from Dads Army. There is a blue plaque on the left of the road up to Kinder that celebrates this. If you didn’t know it was there, you’d walk right past it! [I missed it! – Ed]’
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[The two most well-known cast members of Dad’s Army who served in the Great War are John Laurie (Private Fraser) and Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey), who was seriously wounded on the Somme by a bayonet thrust in 1916. – Ed]
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Bill continues; ‘Hayfield is in the far west of the Peak District. If you look west from the hills, the land flattens out over the Cheshire Plain and in the distance you can see the Welsh mountains on a clear day. Centrally placed on the Cheshire Plain was the huge USAF base at Burtonwood which was I believe the biggest US base in Europe during WW2. I will stand corrected if that is wrong, it was certainly in the top few. The last of the original hangars went in the 90’s, they used to be just north of the M62 as you travelled over to Liverpool. There is a small museum dedicated to the airbase in the unlikely setting of the Gulliver’s World theme park car park, which was itself built on the site of the old air base.
Hayfield is in an area known as ‘The Dark Peak.’ This area was the scene of numerous air crashes after WW1, in the build up to WW2 and in the Cold War era. They are all documented in 2 excellent books by Ron Collier and Roni Wilkinson – Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 1 and Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 2. The books contain details of each wreck and maps with grid references if anyone wants to visit the crash sites. 2 wreck sites are very near Hayfield. In 1954, 2 RAF Canadian built Sabres crashed in cloud while on exercise above Kinder reservoir, which the D’Hooghe party will have walked past. The official report said they flew at high speed into the ground, but eyewitnesses stated that they saw the aircraft collide. They were en-route back to Linton on Ouse. Both pilots sadly died.
The second site is a little further north. Burtonwood is where many US aircraft were repaired after battle damage and also where brand new aircraft were delivered to, along with nearby RAF Warton. On October 11th 1943, in poor weather, two US flyers were detailed to deliver a replacement B24 liberator to Hardwick just south of Norwich. The take-off was alarming as they took out several runway lights before heading east. Some minutes later, flying at 1,500 feet the Liberator ploughed into the moors just north of Hayfield, again in thick fog. Flying conditions that day were appalling, but such was the pressure to deliver fresh aircraft to maintain the war effort. The two airmen survived but never saw each other again. The wreckage of the wreck was broken up and burnt.
Probably the most well-known wreck in The Peak District is that of Boeing B-29 Superfortress ‘Over Exposed.’ There is a Lincolnshire connection here. The aircraft left Scampton on November 3rd 1948 carrying the payroll for the American base and also US bound mail. Some 20 minutes later, the pilot nosed down through the mist and hit Shelf Moor near Glossop. Sadly, all the crew perished. Again, bad weather was a significant factor. Much of this wreck is still in situ, although it is very scattered. It is perhaps an hours walk from The Snake Pass. There is a very simple memorial on the site which is well maintained by visitors. [Thank you Bill. The Bleaklow B-29 Bomber crash site is on my 2025 To-Do list – Ed]
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Did you click the link to read the story of the death of Lieutenant Francis Elliott last week? I alluded to his stupidity which resulted in his death. If you didn’t read the story, then you will need to know that Elliott commanded a small garrison of native police in Somalia having previously served in South Africa with the Lincolnshire Regiment.
The local tribe sent Elliott a clear warning that they intended to attack his garrison, and yet, Elliott insisted that all of his native officers should have their rifles locked away in the armoury each night. Sure enough, the attack happened, and apart from a handful of native policemen who fled into the bush, the entire garrison was killed including Elliott as the men were all unarmed and unable to defend themselves.
This prompted, as usual, a very thoughtful response from Tony Nutkins. Tony commented; ‘Good Afternoon Jonathan and thanks for another absorbing and interesting edition of Trench Lincs.
As usual, the contributions from members and yourself show great depth of knowledge and application in research.
Your mention of the book "Sagittarius Rising" by Ceil Lewis, which I have read a number of times, prompted me to take my copy down from the shelf for another read. I reckon that I need to buy another copy as my tatty paperback is the 1969 edition and, as you say, it is well worth a read by anyone with an interest in the RFC in WW1 and also for Lewis's experiences during the following years all splendidly written. The don't make men like that anymore. [They certainly don’t – Ed]
As regards "apparent stupidity" by Officers it is, as your piece shows, nothing new. A combination of several things, failure to listen to those who do have current knowledge of the situation and the political and cultural considerations, past experience and history of the enemy and current dispositions of enemy, friendly forces and your own...the possibilities and probabilities for not considering all the intel, or considering what intel you don't have, are endless... Anyone who has served in HM Forces will have a story... from the hilarious to the downright tragic.
One that springs to mind is this story from Northern Ireland in the early 1970's. A covert patrol was returning to an RV to be extracted having been out in the blue, bandit country, for 7 days and nights. Everyone was tired beyond belief. The Officer, in his early 20's, was exhausted and in daylight, led his men across the middle of a field instead of going round the margins and using the dry stone walls and hedges for cover. He wouldn't take any notice of the advice given by his NCO's. When they reached the other side of the field, he was leading and he swung his leg over a dry stone wall. As he did, a loud metallic "ping" was heard and the patrol hit the ground...except for the Officer who was straddling the wall, unable to move and had been doubly incontinent.
Having let a suitable period of time elapse to see if there was any follow up from the IRA, the NCO's formed the men into a defensive position and two of them went to see how the Officer was. They had to lift him off the wall as he was frozen with fear and completely incapable of talking or leading his men. The two NCO's looked carefully over the wall and there was a milk churn bomb. Fortunately, only the detonator had gone off and that was the "ping" they had heard. They carried the Officer to the RV, using all the cover that they could and returned to base.
The Officer was taken to hospital suffering from physical and nervous collapse and never re-joined the unit. Had the milk churn bomb exploded it would have wiped out most of the patrol.’
A salutary reminder not cut corners! Thank you Tony.
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I was delighted to receive the following email from David Gray this week; ‘Hello Jonathan,
I am Treasurer of the Peterborough Military History Group and was recently forwarded a link to your excellent 'Trench Lincs' by one of our Members, Roger Negus. We also have a mutual acquaintance in Matt Colley who has recently joined our Group.
I am sure you will be interested in our Website Homepage of the Peterborough Military History Group and you will see that another mutual friend, John Chester, is presenting a talk to us at our meeting on Wednesday 12th February, entitled 'Seven Brave Women and a Boy'.
We have developed a page on the site on which members can submit research they have carried out, or indeed, any interesting stories that are too long for our monthly Newsletter. I have attached one of these stories (only five pages long), which covers the story of Peterborough's Mystery Wireless Station during WWI, its contribution to the destruction of the Zeppelin menace and how it helped with experiments in the atmosphere after the war. This may be of interest to your members as it is quite obscure and fairly local.
I hope you don't mind me contacting you out of the blue! Like you, we are always looking for new members and it is good to maintain communications with like-minded groups.’
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David is quite correct in noting that ‘us like minded folk’ need to keep in touch and I am delighted to be able to publicise their programme of events for 2025.
“We meet at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery in Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF, on the second Wednesday of every month, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
12 February - Seven Brave Women and a Boy John Chester
12 March - Cambridgeshire WFA Medley Emrys Jones
9 April - Hobart’s Funnies John Thornthwaite
14 May - Roman Military Medicine Stuart Orme
11 June - 457th Bomb Group, Glatton Jerry Wright
9 July - TBA Jan Gray
13 August - TBA Andrew Flindall
10 September - Scum of the earth – Wellington’s Army Dave Roberts
8 October - My Modelling CV Keith Boucher
12 November - The Stalingrad Airlift 1942/43 Ted Gray
10 December - WW2 RAF Pilots and Air Crew from Peterborough Roger Negus.”
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It is always a pleasure to hear from Alan Hicks, and this week he definitely has something completely new for us to enjoy.
Alan writes; ‘Many thanks for another great Trench Lincs this week.
My old friend Barry Hudson (who is on your TL mailing list and did come to a couple of meetings with me last year) asked if I would forward to you details relating to an interesting item that has been in his possession for many years.
Barry has forever been a collector of interesting old books and other items. He formed a strong relationship with an old bookshop in Norfolk to where he regularly travelled on business. He purchased from said bookshop an old 1926 print entitled "The Ballad of Lopham Mill" - pic attached. This print has hung undisturbed in his hallway for many years.
Lopham Mill was situated in North Lopham village located just off the A1066 between Diss and Thetford. The ballad refers to the 12 ghosts of Lopham - " Dead men from Flanders plain - Dead men this bitter Armistice day..."
Amongst the dead was William Womack Wharton Crowe. He was the very last in a long line of Womacks to run the mill. Upon being called up to serve in 1916 he removed all the shutters from the sails of the mill so that it could not be operated in his absence. Sadly, he never returned. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial having been killed in action in September 1917 (Third Ypres - Passchendaele).
Lopham Mill remained silent after the war and was ironically sold at auction on Armistice Day 1926. It appears to have been destroyed virtually immediately after the sale!
The ballad imagines the "bitter pain" that the 12 men would have experienced and that they would be "slain again" to learn that their beloved mill - "the loveliest thing of all their village" - had been destroyed on the anniversary of the ending of all hostilities.
A quick look online reveals that 15 men from North Lopham actually lost their lives in the Great War. It may be that of the 15 only 12 were actually born in North Lopham? My second attachment gives fuller details of the mill and its history and the following link gives well researched details of the North Lopham memorial and the 15 men from the village who were lost.
I hope you find Barry's little snippet of North Lopham history interesting?’
The Ballad of Lopham Mill
Twelve men came up from Flanders way,
Twelve ghosts to Lopham came;
The ghosts of Lopham men were they,
Twelve men of Lopham name.
'How fare ye, living kindred? say!
Dead men from Flanders Plain --
Dead men this bitter Armistice Day
Bid ye awhile remember
One bleak and far November
Twelve men for you were slain.'
Twelve ghosts paused at the churchyard gate
To hear the sweet bells ring.
Twelve men, as was their wont before,
Stole on to seek the loveliest thing
Of all their village store.
They hunted hard, they hunted late --
The Mill -- it was no more.
'Farewell, our living kindred! We
Drift back to Flanders Plain
In tenfold bitter agony.
Ye bells in in Lophgam steeple
Now chide the Lopham people --
Yea! Bid them well remember
This chill night of November
Twelve men were SLAIN AGAIN
In tenfold bitter pain.'
Twelve men came up from Flanders way,
Twelve ghosts to Lopham came;
The ghosts of Lopham men were they,
Twelve men of Lopham name.
P. S. Beales
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We certainly have enjoyed this tale Alan. Thank you to you and Barry for sharing it with us.
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Regular readers of Trench Lincs will know of my great friendship with Nadine Dezaeytijd in the Belgian town of Ronse (Renaix in the French language.) Nadine has regularly regaled us with true stories of life in Ronse during the German occupation of 1914-18. Many were brutal and humiliating but there was a touch of humour too in the diary extracts that Nadine shared with us.
When the town was liberated by the 15th/17th Battalion of the West Yorkshire regiment on November 10th 1918, little did anyone realise at the time, that Belgium and its citizens would have to endure a second occupation between 1940 and 1944.
I have had in my possession for some time, thanks to the Ronse Facebook page, some wonderful photographs of the second liberation of Ronse in September 1944. I have been waiting for an ideal time to share them with you and this last week, Nadine supplied me with the perfect opportunity.
During both periods of German occupation, there were families who kept their heads down and attempted to get on with their lives as best as they could, there were families and individuals who collaborated with the Germans and there were many brave souls who resisted the occupation. Many of these brave citizens made the ultimate sacrifice in defence of Belgian freedom.
One female member of the Second World War resistance did survive incarceration by the Germans but has sadly died at the end of January. Nadine takes up the story; ‘Good Evening Jonathan, please find an account of the life of a brave young woman.
Only a few days ago, on 30th January Andrée Dumon, a Belgian icon of the Resistance during WW2 passed away at the age of 102.
Andrée Dumon, code name Nadine, was born in Brussels in a patriotic family. From the beginning of the occupation 18 year-old Andrée defied Nazi and life-threatening danger by walking the streets of Brussels and sticking large V letters, cut out of newspapers, wherever she found a suitable wall while singing patriotic songs out loud.
She joined the Belgian Red Cross and was at first asked to pass messages but, through her father Eugene, being one of the leaders of the so-called Comet Line, she started to pass downed British, Canadian, American and Australian pilots and other crew members from occupied Belgium to France and Spain.
Betrayed, Andrée was arrested on 11th August 1942. Her interrogation, while being beaten and constantly threatened with death, lasted a month after which she was incarcerated in a prison near Brussels. This prison was a secret ‘Nacht Und Nebel’ prison, where the Nazis incarcerated people of the Resistance. She survived that prison but it was only the first part of the horror. People of the Resistance who survived a Nacht Und Nebel prison were put on transport to Nacht Und Nebel concentration camps and this was also the case for Andrée. She was incarcerated in the concentration camp of Ravensbruck and later in Mauthausen, a concentration camp where ‘incorrigible enemies of the Third Reich’ were sent to in order to ‘destroy them for once and for all’ by heavy labour and famine. Andrée was forced to work in the quarries and amazingly survived.
On 22nd April 1945, two and a half years after her arrest, 23-year old Andrée was liberated by the Canadian Red Cross. Her first words to the people of the Canadian Red Cross were: ‘They have robbed me of my physical strength but not of my courage.’
Rest in peace Andrée, just like all these other brave people of the Resistance, your actions were invaluable for the Allied Forces and we all owe you our eternal gratitude.
Andrée Dumon 5th September 1922 to 30th January 2025.’
My mother always told me I was named after a girl from the Brussels Resistance. I never knew who that was until I read the article.’
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Nadine, thank you for this story and we salute all of the members of the Resistance who so bravely defied the German occupation and brutality. As an Historical Note – Nacht Und Nebel (Night and Fog) – which appears in Nadine’s story above, was a directive of December 7, 1941, issued by Adolf Hitler and signed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces High Command. It allowed German authorities to abduct individuals alleged to be "endangering German security" so that they effectively vanished without a trace.
This then allows me to share the series of 1944 liberation photos with you, many of which show members of the armed resistance alongside Allied troops of the liberating army.
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This last week has seen an interesting 108th anniversary occur. On February 3rd 1917, the first Portuguese troops arrived on the Western Front to join the Allied cause against the Germans.
We have touched on the Portuguese contribution before and noted the bad press that they receive in the very Anglo-Centric historiography of the Great War, especially for their actions in April 1918 when faced by the German Spring Offensive – Georgette.
The Portuguese divisions did fall back in disarray, but so did the British troops until Haig’s ‘Back to the Wall’ speech and the arrival of every last man available to stem the German advance towards the channel ports.
The Portuguese had held the line on the Lys near Neuve Chapelle – La Bassée but were very under equipped, poorly trained and poorly led. The Germans recognised this as a weak spot in the Allied front and attacked accordingly. Many histories accuse the Portuguese of ‘running away’ but the Portuguese cemetery at Port Arthur reveals that many men stood and did their bit before making the ultimate sacrifice.
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Why then, did the Portuguese become involved? Portugal is historically Britain’s oldest ally in Europe with the first formal treaty between the countries, The Treaty of Windsor, being signed in 1386, but military support dates back to 1147 when English Crusaders aided King Alfonso I to capture Lisbon from the Moors.
Further strengthening of this friendship occurred at intervals over the next 550 years, most noticeably in 1815, after Waterloo and again in 1899. Of all the wars fought in Europe, Britain and Portugal have never opposed each other, and as well as sending two divisions to the Western Front in 1917, they also fielded a substantial force against the Germans in Africa, predominantly in Mozambique.
If you visit Portugal today as a tourist, most towns have traditional memorials to their 1917-18 war dead. I have featured one or two in past editions of Trench Lincs, but here are a couple more that I have found on my travels.
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IN MEMORIAM - The Lincolnshire Regiment 9th February.
1916
10840 Sergeant Arthur Clough, 7th Battalion, aged 33. Remembered on the Menin Gate, Belgium.
1917
8246 Drummer H Warren, 3rd Battalion, aged 23. Buried in Grimsby (Scartho) Cemetery, UK.
1918
39229 Private William Bryans, 14th Labour Company, aged 41. Buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Until next week
All best wishes
Jonathan
© Jonathan D’Hooghe
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