Harrogate Herald - 1st December 1915
Private E Matson, 3rd Hussars, writes :
November 20th 1915. I have been a long time writing
to thank you for sending me the Herald out here. I enjoy reading
about Harrogate. I have not had much time, as we have been
constantly on the move to find fresh billets, so as to get our
horses under cover. But it is like jumping out of the frying pan
into the fire. If we get good places to sleep, and if a good place
to sleep a bad one for the horses. I am going up trench digging. I
think it will be better than looking after four or five horses and
doing guard every other night. When we go trench digging we only
work f hours a day and do no guards. I have met two or three
Harrogate chaps in the 6th Dragoon Guards out here. They belong to
our Brigade. Well, I think I will draw this letter to a close.
Wishing you and your paper the best of luck.
Harrogate Herald - 31st 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 :
Private E Matson
Harrogate Herald - 11th July 1917
W H Breare letter
Private E Matson, son of Sergeant-Major
and Mrs Matson, 42 Cecil Street, called on Monday. He belongs to
his father's old regiment, the 3rd Hussars, and it is two years in
august since he was last home. He is a Regular. The father is
serving, I believe, in France. Tommy Askew, of Carlisle, has been
with pre Matson, but is now at home with the Reserve Cavalry.
Matson has had rather hard luck in his endeavours to look up
Harrogate boys. He found out where the West Yorks were supposed to
be, but when he got there they had just gone. He was looking out for
chaps of the United Methodist Church Football Club, but did not
succeed in seeing any of them. He likewise tried to find Norman
Wells, whose father id landlord of the Ebor. Norman is in the Scots
Greys, but Matson never managed to see him. My visitor looks
well, and is in excellent spirits. You will perhaps know his Uncle
Tom, who has a taxicab of his own. Of course, he was delighted to be
at home, and found Harrogate very beautiful, but his experience was
like that of other boys from the Front; the town is all right, but
his old pals seem to have gone away for the day - or longer. He
knows, however, that they are in the Army.
Harrogate Herald - 5th December 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 :
Private E Matson
