Wednesday 14th July: Arnold White of Farnham Common [Buckinghamshire] writes: “A neighbour of mine, a Company Sergeant Major in the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards (recalled to the colours) after nine months’ service in the firing line visited me last week. In the course of conversation in which he described many great and wonderful deeds performed by other men and other regiments, of which he was actually the eye-witness, I enquired which of the many great and wonderful exploits which had come under his own eye, was in his opinion the bravest and best. His reply was immediate – “The charge of the 2nd Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment last time I saw them in action”. Were it possible to give the remainder of the Company Sergeant Major’s account of the circumstances which rendered the action of the brave Bedfordshires exceptionally and conspicuously splendid the parents and relations of the lads who have enlisted in the Regiment, in whatever battalion, would tingle with pride. The Sergeant Major remarked: “There was not a word about it in the newspapers”. Had the men worn kilts, come from overseas or been anything but a battalion of Regulars, the newspapers would have been crowded with descriptions of the charge of the brave Bedfordshires(1)”
Source: Bedfordshire Times 20th July 1915
(1) The action might have been that at Festubert in May 1915
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