World War One Letters. An archive of approximately 29 letters sent between temporary Captain Cyril Parry with the Yorkshire Regiment/Green Howards, 1915-19, to his sweetheart Dorothy 'Dot' Forster in Bradford, Yorkshire, comprising uncensored letters from the Front, whilst on leave in England, and returning to active duty in Salonika, all one to four pages, together with their original envelopes, plus approximately 15 miscellaneous family letters and related ephemera, including some photographs, postcards, Field Cards, etc. (Quantity: a folder) After service in Belgium and France and Eastern Europe in the First World War Major Arthur Cyril Lawes Parry MBE MC (born 1893) was to serve in India and Palestine in the 1930s. Captain Parry’s letters (particularly ones from the Front) contain some explicit and unusual, uncensored comments. One of the first letters, 1 October 1915, describes the appalling conditions and of Parry killing his first German soldier: 'We came into the trenches last Sunday night and have had a rotten time. It has been bitterly cold and rained everyday, it is not at all pleasant to be wet and cold for five days. Of course the whole place is one lake of mud and you go floundering about in it just like tadpoles, you are simply covered in it from head to foot, but funny to say everybody is very cheerful and it is the unfortunate German who gets blamed for everything ... I killed my first German yesterday he was a sniper and I spotted him with my field glasses sitting in a tree. I had three shots at him and he tumbled out at the third. He is also the first German I have seen.' A later letter from 25 October gives details of close combat: 'I had quite an exciting time last Friday afternoon, I was sniping away at the Germans from a ruined farm house which was in our trenches. The Germans however spotted me and sent two shells into the place, covering me with dust etc I thought it was time to clear out and a good job I did as they put 18 more in and blew the house to pieces. We were quite sorry to leave those trenches as we had such spiffing dug outs. Mine had a bed, armchair, table and a fire place, as you can imagine when there was a fire in it, it was very cosy.' On 5 January 1916 Parry describes action on the first day of the year: '... had a most excellent new years eve and I am afraid a good many Bosches (sic) only saw one hour of 1916, poor beggars, however war is war. About 90 of our men raided the German trenches opposite use and proceeded to lay out everybody they came across. We took them absolutely by surprise and were in their trenches before they were aware of the fact.' The letters also mention daily life at the Front, his Military Cross nomination (awarded January 1918), training various Battalions of the Green Howards in England, his revolver accidentally discharging in his pocket, and action and subsequent injury whilst fighting in Salonika.
World War One Letters. An archive of approximately 29 letters sent between temporary Captain Cyril Parry with the Yorkshire Regiment/Green Howards, 1915-19, to his sweetheart Dorothy 'Dot' Forster in Bradford, Yorkshire, comprising uncensored letters from the Front, whilst on leave in England, and returning to active duty in Salonika, all one to four pages, together with their original envelopes, plus approximately 15 miscellaneous family letters and related ephemera, including some photographs, postcards, Field Cards, etc. (Quantity: a folder) After service in Belgium and France and Eastern Europe in the First World War Major Arthur Cyril Lawes Parry MBE MC (born 1893) was to serve in India and Palestine in the 1930s. Captain Parry’s letters (particularly ones from the Front) contain some explicit and unusual, uncensored comments. One of the first letters, 1 October 1915, describes the appalling conditions and of Parry killing his first German soldier: 'We came into the trenches last Sunday night and have had a rotten time. It has been bitterly cold and rained everyday, it is not at all pleasant to be wet and cold for five days. Of course the whole place is one lake of mud and you go floundering about in it just like tadpoles, you are simply covered in it from head to foot, but funny to say everybody is very cheerful and it is the unfortunate German who gets blamed for everything ... I killed my first German yesterday he was a sniper and I spotted him with my field glasses sitting in a tree. I had three shots at him and he tumbled out at the third. He is also the first German I have seen.' A later letter from 25 October gives details of close combat: 'I had quite an exciting time last Friday afternoon, I was sniping away at the Germans from a ruined farm house which was in our trenches. The Germans however spotted me and sent two shells into the place, covering me with dust etc I thought it was time to clear out and a good job I did as they put 18 more in and blew the house to pieces. We were quite sorry to leave those trenches as we had such spiffing dug outs. Mine had a bed, armchair, table and a fire place, as you can imagine when there was a fire in it, it was very cosy.' On 5 January 1916 Parry describes action on the first day of the year: '... had a most excellent new years eve and I am afraid a good many Bosches (sic) only saw one hour of 1916, poor beggars, however war is war. About 90 of our men raided the German trenches opposite use and proceeded to lay out everybody they came across. We took them absolutely by surprise and were in their trenches before they were aware of the fact.' The letters also mention daily life at the Front, his Military Cross nomination (awarded January 1918), training various Battalions of the Green Howards in England, his revolver accidentally discharging in his pocket, and action and subsequent injury whilst fighting in Salonika.
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