Harrogate Herald - 7th March 1917

Roll of Honour

Lance Corporal H Bateman, son of Mrs A Lund, 17 Grove Park View, Harrogate, was wounded by a piece of shrapnel going through his right shoulder on February 13th, and is an inmate of the Edenbridge Hospital, Kent, where an effort will be made to remove the shrapnel. The following letter to his mother gives details of the : My dear Mother, I have just received your welcome letter and postal order, and thanks very much. I shall be all right now. I can send out for a few things. It was last Tuesday, February 13th, at 4 o'clock in the morning, that we made an attack on the Germans, and I was in charge of a dozen men with bombs and bayonets. we got into the German front line, and I had just got a German prisoner, and marched him back to the officer in charge, when I got wounded in the right shoulder, and it became useless for the time being. I have a large piece of shrapnel just below the shoulder, and the doctor is trying to get my cold a little better before they operate on me. Well, I hope you are all well at home. Please write to my brothers for me, as it hurts to write too much. With best love to you and Sis.

Lance Corporal Bateman has two half-brothers with the colours - Private J Lund in France and Private H Lund, who is in training.

Harrogate Herald - 20th February 1918

Mr J Lund, of 3 Chatsworth Place, has received word that his youngest son, Private T S Lund, Royal Army Medical Corps, is in No 12 Stationary Hospital, France, suffering from trench fever. Private Lund is the cousin of Sergeant Major Gordon Lund, DCM, who was killed July 1st, 1916.