Saturday 24th June 1916: Private Fred Pressland of the
Bedfordshire Regiment, a former solo boy of Saint John’s church choir and a
well-known employee at Biggleswade Brewery(1) writes from the British Base to
his brothers at Newton and says: "In answer to your welcome letter which I
received on Monday I am being moved from here, but will write as soon as I can.
I suppose we are going to have a look at the Germans, but I hope to come out
all right. They have only given us about five minutes’ notice”(2)
Source: Bedfordshire Standard 23rd
June 1916
(1) Wells and
Winch Limited – take over by Greene King in 1961
(2) it sounds as if Private Pressland was in a
battalion to be engaged in the opening phases of the Battle of the Somme –
either 7th or 2nd.
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