Little Tich in Flanders

Monday 21st June 1915: We have today heard from Private Charles Carr of 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, universally known as Little Tich, who has come safely through the action at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée a few days ago: “We have been livening things up a lot again, as we thought it would be very monotonous for them if we didn’t go over and see how they were getting on. One fellow did come, and shouted to the Guards, “Come on, five of you”. One of them threw a bomb and caught him on the side of the ear with it and, of course, he was silenced”.

In a message to his family he asked: “Have you got an old map showing the battle line, so we can see how things go? The pork pies in the parcel had gone a bit mouldy, but that didn’t matter, they were still pork pies”(1)

Source: Bedfordshire Standard 2nd July 1915

(1) Sadly Little Tich was killed on 7th December 1917.