Rotary Club Lunch Meeting

Fri, Nov 9th 2018 at 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm

As this was the nearest Friday to the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice at the end of WW1, we marked the occasion with Peter Firth reading entries from his grandfather's diary, written on the Western Front during the last months of the Great War.

Peter's grandfather, William P Firth, served in the Royal Artillery from the age of 14 to the age of 38.

. He left the army in 1907 having served nearly 24 years in postings in Irelend, Gibraltar, India, St. Helena and in the Boer War in South Africa. At the start of WW1, at the age of 45, he re-enlisted and served in the UK until 1918, when he was posted to France and served there and in Belgium, seeing active service on the Western Front in the final months of the war.

Some of the extracts from his diary may be read in the following document:

WPF Diary Extracts 1918 (2).pdf

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