Seeing by your paper, which we have sent out here every week, that you still have some socks, etc, left, I am writing to say that I could do with some if you have any on hand, as up here we seem to get through a lot of socks. I am now in the DLI. We are having very rough weather up here this last few days, quite wintry, and as only can be expected we are about p to the neck in it, but hoping for better weather before long. Quite a lot of our lads from Harrogate are up here, and Bert Newbould and young Brown went out last week. Some of the lads are over in Harrogate right now on their last leave, so you might be seeing them. I am sorry to see that Tom Handley had got killed, as I used to work with him at the Corporation for a few years. I was formerly nine years warehouseman for J Farrah, Ltd. We get your paper every week, and you can bet if it is late we are disappointed, and then it is who can get hold of it first - me or Wilson, from Grove Park. We have young Loocock here, whose father is gardener to the Corporation, and it goes from one to the other. I could not tell you where it finishes. My home is 34 Mayfield Grove. I have just received word that my brother-in-law, F Topham, of Bilton, who came over with the Canadians, has been wounded in France, but don't now any more.

Harrogate Herald - 26th September 1917

Roll of Honour

Gunner R Newbould, RGA, of 20 Cecil Street, Harrogate, is now in hospital in Kent, suffering from shrapnel wounds. He was operated on a week ago and is progressing favourably. Previous to joining up he was employed by Messrs John Farrah Ltd, Crescent Road, and has been in France since December 1916. This is the second time Gunner Newbould has been wounded, the first occasion being on the left hand.

Harrogate Herald - 5th December 1917

W H Breare letter

Gunner Newbould, of 20 Cecil Street, was wounded September 5th, and has been in hospital at Orpington, Kent, and then a VAD hospital, Abbey Lodge, Chislehurst. He called to see me. With him at the Front and in the same battery was Bob Riby, who lives at 13 Pine Street, and is married. Gunner H Sutcliffe, killed last February, was with is lot and the first man in his battery killed. My visitor was an assistant at Farrah's before enlisting. Newbould was slightly wounded before, but did not leave the battery. He was to go to report to a command depot on Monday. A brother of his, Sapper A Newbould, Royal Engineers, was wounded November 10th by shell, and has been in hospital at Newcastle. Another brother, H Newbould, is in the trenches. His brother-in-law, Private L W Kendall, of the West Yorks, was killed September 20th; he was married and lived at Killinghall.