St Mary Redcliffe Church Parish Magazine - November 2018

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forgotten voices November 1918: Armistice “Winchester Cathedral—on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, officers and men of the United States Army in tribute to their fallen comrades” “The Commanding Officer of the Irish Guards reading the news of the Armistice to his men” Voices compiled by Lester Clements, for November 2018
WE WERE STILL FIGHTING hard and losing men. We knew nothing of the proposed Armistice, we didn’t know until a quarter to ten on that day. As we advanced on the village of Guiry a runner came up and told us that the armistice would be signed at 11 o‘clock that day, the 11th of November. That was the first we knew of it. We were lined up on a railway bank nearby, the same railway bank that the Manchesters had lined up on in 1914. They had fought at the battle of Mons in August that year. Some of us went down to a wood in a little valley and found the skeletons of some of the Manchesters still lying there. Lying there with their boots on, very still, no helmets, no rusty rifles or equipment, just their boots. Marine Hubert Trotman Royal Marine Light Infantry AS FAR AS THE ARMISTICE itself was concerned, it was a kind of anticlimax. We were too far gone, too exhausted really, to enjoy it. All we wanted to do was to go back to our billets, there was no cheering, no singing. That day we had no alcohol at all. We simply celebrated the Armistice in silence and thankfulness that it was all over. And I believe that happened quite a lot in France. It was such a sense of anticlimax. We were drained of all emotion. That’s what it amounted to. Corporal Clifford Lane 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment IT WASN’T LIKE LONDON where they all got drunk of course. No, it wasn’t like that, it was all very quiet. You were so dazed you just didn’t realise that you could stand up straight and not be shot. Corporal Reginald Leonard Haine 1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company AS WE ADVANCED we saw the terrible state of the Ypres salient. There were wrecked tanks from 1917 all over the place. I was used to dead horses and mules but not in the numbers that we saw up there. Of course it was just shell-holes everywhere. By the end of the first day we were clear of Ypres and on a ridge where we could look ahead and see trees and landscape that had not been affected by war. It was just unbelievable. We knew then that things were going well. We came back out of the line at a place called Vichte and had gone to bed in a hay loft. Our sergeant came in shouting that the war was over. Everybody got up and went down into this wee village. The estaminet owner opened his pub and issued free drinks and then went back to bed. We were paraded at the usual time. We were made to do slope arms by numbers till 11 o’clock. Then were were disbanded. That was the Armistice. Trooper Alexander Jamieson, 11th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
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