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34 CHAPTER 34. AUSTIN PLANT: WORLD WAR I CASUALTY 34.4 Austin’s personal record Figure 34.1: Austin Plant in (a) 1914 and (b) 1917 This record comprises extracts from Austin’s contemporary letters home and, more especially, from two notebooks returned from his belongings. I have interspersed the dated entries with information from Colonel Willy’s official history entitled ‘The York and Lancaster Regiment’, Vol. II which are labelled below [Y&L II]. The first section of Austin’s first notebook contains various quotes, such as one dated Good Friday April 2nd 1915: You can not dream yourself into a character. You must work hard and persiver. Above all put your trust in God. This is then rewritten as: You can not dream yourself into a character. You must hammer, and forge yourself one. Another, apparently taken from the Daily Mirror of 16 Jul 15, is: The dead do not need us; but for ever and for ever more we need them. Garfield.
34.4. AUSTIN’S PERSONAL RECORD 35 Other parts of the notebooks contain such things as a list of family birthdays, drawings of horses with superimposed crosses, notes on human anatomy, gun drill and some French phrase translations. There are also diary-like entries which, along with a dated book, postcards, information from his personal file held by the MOD, etc., can be summarised as follows: • 1906 • 1914 • 1915 – Jul 31 [Book ‘The Innocents Abroad’] Presented for Punctual Attendance at Meersbrook Bank School, Sheffield. – Sep 3 [Information from MOD] Enlisted as Number 15861 into the York and Lancaster Regiment and posted to 8th Battalion 6 . – Sep [Y&L II] 8th Y&L was part of the 70th Brigade of the 23rd Division; the 70th Brigade began to assemble at Frensham. – Nov 11 [Letter to his mother and sisters] Under training; postmark is Frensham Common, which is about 4 miles NE of Bordon Camp, Hampshire. – Dec 1 and 2 [Y&L II] 23rd Division moved from Frensham to Aldershot. – Jan 14 [Y&L II] 70th Brigade inspected at Aldershot by Kitchener and the French War Minister. – late Jan [Y&L II] Khaki uniforms issued. – Feb, last week [Y&L II] Division moved to Shorncliffe area, Kent. – Mar 15 [Letter home] At Hythe, Kent; visits Folkestone with other soldiers. – Apr 2 [At start of first notebook] Austin Plant, Pte No 15861, B Company, Y & L Regiment. 58 North Rd, Hythe, Kent 7 . – Apr 7 [Postcard to his brother Tom] From Kent. – Apr 18 [Letter to his mother and sisters] At Hythe, Kent, under training including route marches; airship guarding coast. – Apr 18 [Birthday Postcard to his brother Tom] Saying he ‘was delighted to have another baby brother at the time’. – Apr 26 [Letter home] Askcham House, Hythe; bathing feet in sea before morning parade. – May 24 [Y&L II] Division move to Bordon; in hutments erected on the various commons. – May 25 Arrived at Bordon Camp (Hampshire) after just 2 weeks stay at Bromley, Kent 8 . – Jun 4 [Letter to his brother Tom] From St Lucia Barracks, Bordon, he asks Tom (aged 10) to keep drawing and sending him pictures. – Jun [Y&L II] Service rifles issued to the Division; practice on Woolmer and Longmoor ranges. – Jun 22 [Letter home] Now fully equipped; 20 mile route march with full packs for first time. 6 This date is 1 month after war was declared. 7 This address near Folkestone is later written again as that of a Mrs Rogers. 8 Bromley, now an outer suburb of London, is about 50 miles from Hythe.
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Page 5 and 6: 217 Mrs Sylvia Wells 16 Third Ave.,
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Page 55 and 56: Update on the Name Origins project
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