Sapper A. Overhill
Saturday 20th March 1915: Mr and Mrs Overhill of Iddesleigh-road, Bedford, whose son, Sapper Albert E. Overhill, was with the East Anglian Royal Engineers, have received disquieting news of him. He was wounded in the fighting near Neuve Chapelle on 10th March. On Monday his parents received the following letter from the General Hospital, Boulogne, under date of March 13th: - “’Bert’ has been wounded in the back by shrapnel. He is here in hospital and fairly comfortable. I expect he will be moved to England soon. He is not in any pain”. On Tuesday evening, however, a telegram was received saying that sapper Overhill was dangerously ill with spinal concussion. Sapper Overhill is well known at the Queen’s Engineering Works, where he has been employed in the fitting department for a number of years”.
“On Wednesday evening Mr Overhill received a letter from a sister in the Boulgone Hospital, in which she says: - “Sapper A. E. Overhill has a gun-shot wound in the right side, not concussion of the spinal cord. He is very dangerously ill, but he is quite conscious and very patient””(1).
Source; Bedfordshire Standard 19th March 1915
(1) He died of his wounds on 22nd April and is buried in Bedford Cemetery in Foster Hill Road.
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