Clophill Village c.1904 [Z50/31/33]
Thursday
15th June 1916: News has reached Clophill both of the Rector and
of a number of its soldiers. Revd. Matthews has been ill and has spent some
weeks in hospital, but is now well again and back to his duties as chaplain.
The tidings concerning three men serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment are
mixed. Private Samuel Page of the 8th Bedfords has been seriously wounded and
is now in hospital at Oxford where his life is still in danger. Corporal George
Bone of the 2nd Bedfords has been at the Front since the beginning of the war
and has been wounded several times; he is now progressing favourably following
his most recent wound. The family of Private Arthur Richardson, who was
reported some time ago as “missing, supposed dead”, have now heard that he is
“wounded and a prisoner in Germany”. Finally, Sapper Albert Maddams of the
Royal Engineers is reported to be “in hospital with foot trouble”.
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