“Letter from R.R.R. that he had been awarded bar and the M. C.” [Military Cross].
Entry from the diary of Emily Evelyn and Hugh Reynolds Rathbone dated 20th October, 1918 [RP XVA.3.172].
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This Week’s War: 219
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‘The war news is excellent now, and we can do more than see light through the tunnel at last. I am only afraid that the foolish people who abound everywhere in public as in private life will be tempted into too premature a discussion of peace terms. It is quite evident that the Hun now feels the hopelessness of his position, so it behoves us to wire into him with redoubled fury and finish the job thoroughly, once and for all.’
Entry dated October 9th 1918, War Diary 1917 – 1919, by Aleyn Lyell Reade [ALR. A. 1. 2].
This Week’s War: 218
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‘Bulgaria unconditionally surrenders. Allied forces on Western Front still making great headway.’
Entry dated Tuesday October 1 1918, diary of John Bruce Glasier [GP/2/1/25].
This Week’s War: 217
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Not as Bad as It Might Be
Sergt. H. C. Hiles (Bristol Office), R.F.A. who is serving in the Italian Expeditionary Force writes: “I am spending a cool summer on the mountain tops. It is not such a bad old war as it might be.”
Extract from Cunard magazine September 1918 issue [D42/PR5/1].
This Week’s War: 216
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‘Longuet[?] in impassioned speech declares France is in danger of extinction. Already 1,700,000 killed and 800,000 maimed.’
Entry dated Friday September 20 1918, diary of John Bruce Glasier [GP/2/1/25].
This Week’s War: 215
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‘We beg to point out that if the extra accommodation requisitioned by the War Office is granted it will put us to considerable inconvenience […] The present temporary Laboratory and curtailed filling room are barely sufficient to meet the demands now made upon them and in view of the increase in the entry of Dental Students, we must have some room for expansion.’
Letter dated September 11th 1918, from W. H. Gilmour to the War Office regarding use of the Dental Hospital [A306/2/8].
This Week’s War: 214
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‘This is a very war-scarred district, the scene of much severe fighting quite recently, and the villages are all mere heaps of debris. Till the rain came the dust, fanned by a strong wind, was terrible. It was most curious to stand on a piece of high ground and see all around what looked like burning villages […]’
Entry dated September 9th 1918, War Diary 1917 – 1919, by Aleyn Lyell Reade [ALR. A. 1. 2].
This Week’s War: 213
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D.S.C. for Cunard Apprentice
It is interesting to record that one of the Cunard apprentices, F. W. Hartley, who left the Company to join the Navy in 1917, has been awarded the D.S.C. for conspicuous bravery while in action with enemy submarines.
Extract from Cunard magazine August 1918 issue [D42/PR5/1].
This Week’s War: 212
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“Allies advancing. More capture of German prisoners and guns. War press jubilant, and crying out for ‘No terms but complete surrender.'”
Entry dated Friday 23 August 1918, diary of John Bruce Glasier [GP/2/1/25].
This Week’s War: 211
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“Though one man was just touched here last night, I should have mentioned that no one was really hurt. The shell struck the edge of a trench right under the corner of the building and blew the floor up behind the bar. It was very strange how, occasionally, an isolated shell would drop, as it did here, in a perfectly quiet area…”
Entry dated August 15th 1918, War Diary 1917 – 1919, by Aleyn Lyell Reade [ALR. A. 1. 2].