Harrogate Herald - 24th November 1915

Gunner W Bedford, Royal Field Artillery, writes : 

November 15th, 1915. many thanks for your paper. I was very glad to receive it and to read about Harrogate once again. Well, the weather is very changeable here. These two days it has been fine but very cold. At nights a sharp frost comes and it isn't half cold. The Germans have done a bit of damage not far from where our battery is. Yesterday over 60 shells came over and damaged the roads and other places, but a day will come when they will wish they had all those shells they have merely thrown away. The sooner it comes the better. The infantry are able to tell a good tale. I have heard many say the Germans come up to the first line and beg for grub. I think they are about starved out, and it will surprise me if they last the winter out. Well, I think this is all this time, so will now close. Wishing you and your paper every success.

Harrogate Herald - 10th January 1917

The following are men who have sent us the Army post-card briefly stating that they are well and have received papers and parcels, or whose letters contain views that have repeatedly been expressed by other correspondents, but show their friends that they are all right :

Gunner W Bedford

Harrogate Herald - 30th May 1917

The following are men who have sent us the Army post-card briefly stating that they are well and have received papers and parcels, or whose letters contain views that have repeatedly been expressed by other correspondents, but show their friends that they are all right :

Gunner W Bedford

Harrogate Herald - 5th September 1917

Gunner W Bedford writes : 

I met a Starbeck lad while in hospital. It was one of Mr Kershaw's sons of The Avenue. He is the first one I have come across all the time I have been out here, and that is just two years today (Thursday) since I landed. I have no Harrogate lads with me in this battery. There is one who comes from Leeds; all the rest are London chaps.