Ten Years Ago Today, item 8

• December 9, 2016 19:54:02 Sue Bryant

  Sept. 18 1918

   

  Ten Years Ago Today

   

  My Dearest Beryl and Barbara,

  September 18^th 1918 was a red letter day

   

  in your Daddy’s life, and in Mummy’s too. It was on

  that day that my contribution to the efforts of the Allies

  in the Great War ceased, and this letter to you is to

  recall to my mind and to put on record for you

  the events of that morning. “Recall” is superfluous.

  the details of that day are still vivid in my

  mind and I will try to write down just how it

  happened.

                  There is nothing glorious to relate, not even

  thrilling, but I hope when you come to read this

  you will find a certain interest in this tiny chapter

  of my experiences in the War of 1914-1918.

                  War is a horrible business. The days of the

  fomantic battles, the crashing charge of cavalry such

  as we read of in the “Charge of the Light Brigade”, the

  impregnable square of red-coated infantry, the rumbling

  of artillery as the guns are swung into action at the

  gallop of flashing swords, the gay flumed lances, all

  this is history and if the truth were known much of it

  distorted history.

                  There can be nothing glorious in war.

  individual actions, even concerted movements of

  companies or battalions, can stand out as examples

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