St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - September 2017

R
EDCLIFFE LUNCH CLUB — a very warm welcome awaits you! We meet
every Wednesday and provide a two-course meal and a cup of tea for
£4.00. A weekly raffle is held and drawn after the meal, which is followed by
a speaker, a slide show, and a sing-along or music. After a break for August
we meet again on Wednesday 6th September, from 12 noon to 2pm at
Faithspace Hall in Prewett Street. We welcome all our returning members,
and especially look forward to meeting new members — if you would like
to find out more please get in touch with Bobby Bewley on 0117-9864445.
forgotten voices WWI passchendaele 1917
illustration: Furnace © E J Lee 2005
Captain Cyril Dennys, 212 Siege Battalion, Royal Artillery
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Hymn Singalong
First Wednesday in every month
11 am –12 noon, Faithspace Centre
Prewett Street, Redcliffe BS1 68P
are a friendly happy group However we
are not brilliant at singing... but we do enjoy
ourselves ! Please come and join us and help us in
singing all your old well-loved favourite hymns
Tea, coffee, cake and biscuits afterwards Free
of charge, or a small donation
Enquiries to Rosemary
0117–9221627
WE BUILT for each of the four Howitzers a platform. In a
normal battle you would have a gun in a pit, but at Ypres you often
couldn’t do that, because the water level was too high. So we used to
make a sandbag, or double sandbag, wall around the edges of the gun pit. In
the Ypres salient, sometimes the ground was so devastated and wrecked that
the usual camouflage netting might give you away. So we would make the position
look as untidy as the surroundings. We used to throw around bits of old
sackcloth, sandbags, half a rum jar — and instead of putting the implements,
the battery and spikes and levers and things in neat order, we used to throw
them about. We were told to do this by the RFC pilots. They said, “For God’s
sake don’t have any kind or order. Have your battery positions as untidy
as you can and never allow your men to approach the guns along the same track,
or they’ll make a path that will be visible from the air”.
Voices compiled by Lester Clements, for September 2017
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