Harrogate Herald - 24th October 1917
W H Breare letter
By the way, Captain Bain, son of Dr Bain,
of Harrogate, I understand, has been selected as one of the officers
to train American officers in a certain class of gunnery. He has
been out over two years and a half, so I imagine the change will be
welcome to him, as his battalion has had a good deal of dangerous
work and suffered its full share of casualties.
Harrogate Herald - 31st October 1917
W H Breare letter
I had a pleasant surprise on Wednesday night, for
then Dr Bain and his son, Captain Bain, who is in the
same battalion as my son, called to see me and we had a very
pleasant though all too brief time. You will have noticed that
medical students are being combed out of the Army. There is a
tremendous shortage of medical men at home - not sufficient for the
imperative needs of our people. Doctors, I regret to say, have been
so overworked that deaths are very frequent amongst medicos of
advanced years. The position is an alarming one, and the Government
is taking means to obviate present and future difficulties by
combing out the medical students so that they may finish their
courses and relieve the strain. Captain Bain is a medical
student, and having had over two years and a half military service,
I hope he will now be able to resume his medical studies. Thus far
he has been in charge of a machine gun lot, and has risen rapidly to
the rank of captain. His battalion, which was in the affair of the
8th and 9th, as well as many other "stunts", and suffered
many casualties, is resting.
Harrogate Herald - 26th December 1917
Military Honours
Captain Cyril W C Bain, Machine Gun Corps (Military
Cross), is the only surviving son of Dr Bain, of Harrogate.
He was educated at Bilton Grange, Rugby, and Wellington College, and
had been a year at Christ Church, Oxford, when the war broke out,
having entered as a medical student. He got his commission in
September, 1914, and went out with the West Riding Division in
April, 1915. He was mentioned in despatches last June.
