PRIVATE HAROLD WINTERBOTTOM

Private Harold Winterbottom who's mother resides at 'Montford', Womersley Road, Knottingley, has had a rough experience. He was wounded early in the war and recovered.  He writes his mother stating that he has been wounded and gassed but expects to be in England shortly.

He mentions that other members of the battalion were gassed and he had seen some in this hospital who are coming to England. The wound he sustained on the present occasion is in the left shoulder where he was hit by a bomb. "So", he goes on, "I think I am lucky to be alive. I cannot talk, it is laughable to hear us whispering to each other...Don't worry if you don't receive another letter very soon, best of love to all etc."

Copied From Pontefract and Castleford Express May 3rd 1918

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