Back to War: Letters Jun 1915 to Oct 1915
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This Third Volume of Letters by John Seymour Lindsay takes us from the end of May to the end of October 1915. The Letters describe his release from Hospital and journey to London for a quick marriage, to training in Rouen, St Omer and Calais before moving up to the Belgium border and Cassel, Bourgbourg, Bergues, Wormhout and Watten, in preparation for a new excursion to The Front.
Paul Middleton
Retired now, but worked in publishing for 30 years at Reader's Digest and Times Books. Call myself an Independent Publishing Professional interested in social history and our extensive family archives. Have co-published 3 books on Bedford and currently working on family projects on First World War and 20th century art of a grandfather. Lucky to live in a sub-tropical valley in southern Spain.
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Back to War - Paul Middleton
Back to War - Letters Jun 1915 to Oct 1915
Paul Middleton
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John Seymour Lindsay Rifleman 1006 London Rifle Brigade.
Foreword
John Seymour Lindsay DCM (JSL) left a fine record for us to read. He wrote hundreds of letters to Mildred his fiancée then wife, and Frank his brother, describing his experiences and feelings, sometimes candidly but more often hiding the reality. I have shown every letter with a full transcription.
This Third Volume of Letters takes us from the end of May to the end of October 1915 and journeys from his release from Hospital to a quick marriage in London, to training in Rouen, St Omer and Calais before moving up to the Belgium border and Cassel, Bourgbourg, Bergues, Wormhout and Watten, preparing for a new excursion to The Front.
The letters passed through the military Censor so it takes us some time to decipher where he actually was, but in hindsight and with some important clues it is possible to trace his career. He experienced devastating losses of his friends, he showed great bravery and privation, but above all what shines through is his enduring love of art. Maybe this saved his sanity. Among the platitudes of comments on the weather and his physical state, his letters continually refer to his sketching of colleagues, the trenches and the nearby villages.
Read his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which can be found at the end of this book. Here you will be convinced that he was a true hero and polymath.
Paul Middleton 2013
Chronology
FIRST WORLD WAR
Sept 1914 Private No.1006 5th London Rifle Brigade 2nd Battalion
16 Dec 1914 Served in France Theatre of War
Jan 1915 to Jul 16 1915 1st Battalion
12 Mar 1915 No.3 General Hospital, Le Treport.
12 Mar 1915 Transferred to Convalescent Depot
May 1915 Second Battle of Ypres
26 May 1915 Transferred to Base Depot Rouen
16 Jun 1915 Licence granted and married Mildred Ethel Williams (died 1948)
at Holy Cross, St Pancras, London
Aug to Nov 1915 Cassel, Caestre and Poperinghe
11 Mar 1916 DCM awarded to L/Cpl John Seymour Lindsay for action on 3 May 1915
July 1916 Battle of Gommecourt
19 Jul 1916 Sgt gazetted with direct commission as 2nd Lieut at Bienvillers
Sept 1916 wounded and invalided home and then served with 3rd Battalion LRB
8 Oct 1916 2nd Lieut wounded
23 Apr 1917 1st London Reserve Brigade, including LRB, moved to Aisne Barracks at Blackdown
19 Jan 1918 Lieutenant
9 May 1919 Received Great War Invalided Certificate
Chapter 1
Letters 28 May 1915 - 18 June 1915
Base Camp Rouen and St Pancras, London
Recovering from the hell of Ypres must have been more of a