Harrogate Herald - 24th November 1915

The following write : "I am quite well. I have received the papers. Letter follows at first opportunity", or express thanks for the Herald :

Private G Beckwith

Harrogate Herald - 24th November 1915

Private G Beckwith writes : 

3rd November 1915 : I am just writing a few lines to thank you for your papers. I have received two this week. It is nice to read about the old place, also the letters from my pals that are published. I had letters from two Harrogate lads in France - Lance Corporal R Marshall and B Hunter. They are both quite well. Hoping to receive your paper regularly, and wishing it every success. There is quite a rum on me when I get your paper, as there are a lot of Harrogate chaps out here and they all want to see it. PS - There was a nice letter in your paper the other day from Dr Bateson. It was an interesting letter. I must close now. Again thanking you for the paper.

Harrogate Herald - 28th November 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 G Beckwith

Harrogate Herald - 25th December 1918

W H Breare letter

I had three soldiers in to see me on Monday. First came Private A G Trowsdale, son of Mr and Mrs Trowsdale, Knaresborough Road, who was just about to return to France. He is now doing guards at GHQ. He was wounded, and has been back just twelve months. His brother, it will remembered, won the Military Medal. He is now in Italy, and hoping to be over soon on leave. Private Frank Smith is with the Trench Mortar Company. He was exempt until last October. He assisted his father before the war in his cabbing business, and stood on the Montpelier stand. He has no Harrogate men with him, but Burton, of Masham, is in his lot. Private G Beckwith is one of three brothers serving, the sons of Mr and Mrs Beckwith, 13 Regent Grove, Harrogate. He joined up in January, 1915, and went to the Dardanelles, then to Egypt, and next to France. He met with an accident, and was sent to Nottingham Hospital. After discharge he was sent to York, from there to Ripon, then to Whitley Bay. He is going all right. His brother, Sapper H W Beckwith, joined up at the beginning of 1917, and for a time followed his trade as a shoemaker in England, but is now in Ireland. Harry Beckwith, a younger brother, went out to France in March, and is with a pioneer battalion. Private Pert gave me a call, likewise Private W White, of the Koylies. He went to Egypt in 1915, and came back to France the following year. He was mentioned in despatches, but being a miner has been discharged. He has been gassed, but remained on duty.