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The Royal British Legion October 2017 THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION CAMBRIDGESHIRE & HUNTINGDONSHIRE NEWSLETTER EDITOR’s NOTE: I will continue to provide this Newsletter, but I do need help from you with contributions towards the publication. For it to be a success then I need articles, news, stories and details of events from Branch level and Members. Advertising your event within the Newsletter, hopefully will help you have a larger attendance, the Newsletter is not only seen by Members. 2017 will bring more WWI Commemorations & Remembrance, Over the Next few months I will try to pass on as much information as possible so that Members are aware of what is happening. However for those of you who have not visited the Legion website, there many items of information and news available on the site www.britishlegion.org.uk CITY of ELY BRANCH CHAIRMAN RAISES FUNDS for POPPY APPEAL City of Ely Branch Chairman David Martin took part along with 30 other riders in the Royal British Legion’s cycle ride from London to Ypres, Belgium, in aid of the Poppy Appeal. During the 4 Day 319 mile cycle ride the cyclists and support team visited many Military Cemeteries, including the Thiepval Memorial, Tyne Cot and their final destination the Menin Gate in the town of Ypres. The cyclists, it is hoped will have raised more than £18,000 in total. David raised more than £900 with great support of the people of Ely, Lloyd’s Bank (Ely), The Kings Arms and Little Print shop.” He wishes to say thank you to all who supported him. 1 World War 1 Victoria Cross Recipients 3 May – 6th May 2017 Robert Grierson Combe VC - was 36 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 27th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. On 3 May 1917, south of Acheville, France, Lieutenant Combe lead his company under intense fire through the enemy barrage reaching their objective with only five men. He proceeded to bomb the enemy, inflicting heavy casualties and then, collecting small groups of men, they succeeded in capturing the objective, together with 80 prisoners. He repeatedly charged the enemy, driving them before him, but while personally leading his bombers he was killed by a sniper. John "Jack" Harrison VC MC - was a 26-year-old Second Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment. On 3 May 1917 with the rest of his brigade, he was ordered to attack a wood near Oppy, Pas-de-Calais, his platoon became pinned down by machine gun fire. Owing to darkness and to smoke from the enemy barrage, and the fact that the objective was in a dark wood, it was impossible to see when our barrage had lifted off the enemy front line. Nevertheless, 2nd Lt. Harrison led his company against the enemy trench under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, but was repulsed. Re-organising his command as best he could in No Man's Land, he again attacked in darkness under terrific fire, but with no success. Then, turning round and single-handed made a dash at the machine-gun, hoping to knock out the gun and so save the lives of many of his company. His disregard of danger was an inspiring example to all. (he was reported missing, believed killed.) George Jarratt VC – was 25 years old corporal in the 8th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers. On 3 rd May 1917 near Pelves, France, had together with some wounded men, been taken prisoner and placed under guard in a dug- out. The same evening the enemy were driven back by our troops, the leading infantrymen of which commenced to bomb the dug-outs. A grenade fell in the dugout, and without hesitation Cpl. Jarratt placed both feet on the grenade, the subsequent explosion blowing off both his legs. The wounded were later safely removed to our lines, but Cpl. Jarratt died before he could be removed. Michael Wilson Heaviside VC – was 36 years old, and a Private in the 15th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry. On the evening of 5 May 1917, the battalion returned to their barricades on the Hindenburg Line, near Fontaine-les-Croisilles, France. The next afternoon, 6 May 1917, a sentry noticed movement in a shell hole about forty yards from the German barricade. A wounded British soldier was desperately waving an empty water bottle. Any attempt to help this soldier in daylight would result in almost certain death for the rescuers. Michael Heaviside, however, said that he was going to try. Grabbing water and a first aid bag, the stretcher bearer scrambled over the barricade and out into no-man’s-land. Immediately, he came under heavy rifle and machine gun fire from the German positions and was forced to throw himself to the ground. He then began to crawl sixty yards across the broken ground from shell hole to shell hole to where the wounded soldier was sheltering. When Private Heaviside reached the soldier, he found the man nearly demented with thirst for he had been lying badly wounded in the shell hole for four days and three nights, without any food or water. Michael Heaviside gave the soldier water, dressed his wounds and then promised that he would return with help. That night, Michael Heaviside led two other stretcher bearers out across no-man’s-land to the wounded soldier and carried him back to safety. Without doubt, he had saved this man’s life. 2 POP IN CENTRES The Cambridgeshire RBL Advice and Information Officer Daniel (Dan) Francis has in the last month started up two Pop In Centres, initially they will open once a month, see below. You may wish to Pop In youreslves and speak to Dan or possibly look to help out. Would your location benefit from having a Pop In Centre? If so contact me and I will speak to Dan reference discussing it with you. DO YOU REQUIRE YOUR MEDALS TO BE COURT MOUNTED I recently decided that my Service medals were starting to look a little shabby and needed a good overhaul and re-court mounting. After shopping around, I decided upon using someone locally Tim Pidoux an Ex RAF SNCO MT, who started up his business TFPCOURTMOUNTING on leaving the Service a number of years ago. Based in Bury near Ramsey he is definitely local. I was very pleased with the Service I was provided, professional work that was carried out extremely prompt and at excellent Value for Money (VFM). As seen above , Tim can also mount and frame prints, photographs, cross-stitch, Tower of London Poppies and posters. Click on the link: www.tfpcourtmounting.co.uk to see more. If you are not on internet and require some information the contact Tim on Mobile: 07826856345 3 Paddy and the mirror . “There was a ghost in the accommodation”. That was the belief by the local population. We were in Sabah, Borneo just outside Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) the state capital. The living accommodation was a building made up of two large flats. We lived in the upstairs flat and the work area and stores were down stairs. Prof Jones (called that because he had slight greying of the hair at the temples and his name was Jones) the Troop Staff Sergeant had an Indonesian/Malayan princess as his wife. Through her nationality he could purchase property in Malaysia which foreign nationals could not normally do. The story of the house was that; when it was being built one of the workers put a curse on the wall inside the house then plastered over it. The locals would not have anything to do with the house and the owner wanted to get rid of this brand new building. Prof picked it up for a song and rented it out to the troop. Of course nothing ever happened except that some of the lads kept the occasional story going of noises in the night but none of us really believed in them. One day one of my friends; a ruffty tuffty broad accented Irishman, Sapper ‘Paddy’ Macaulay, was alone in bed in the upper flat when he heard a noise. He got up to investigate and got as far as the door. The stories of the ghost came into his mind; he went back to bed. He did this a second time after the same noise. The third time he was determined to prove to himself, that he was not afraid and did not believe in ghosts. He searched the entire building starting on the ground floor and working up. He did not turn on any lights, out of bravado. Of course there was no ghost but also no explanation of the noise. So at the last room which was the upstairs accommodation bathroom he decided to relieve himself before going back to bed. The small strip light on the top of the mirrored medicine cabinet had a dodgy connection; it sometimes worked and sometimes not. As Paddy opened the door, still in the state of diminishing adrenalin, he was facing the mirror when the light decided to illuminate of its on volition. Paddy stared at the Mirror and his own reflection, scaring the life out of himself. Story by Jack Crompton – Ramsey & District Branch QUIZ TIME: The Silver Screen - Answers Page 6 1. Which was the second of the Star Wars films? 9. In which city does Judge Dredd work? 2. Who played the title roles in “When Harry met 10 . Which “Top Gun” star married Nicole Kidman? Sally” 3. Who was the baby’s voice in “Look who’s 11 . What were the Christian names of the Talking”? Blues Brothers, in the film the Blues Brothers? 4.
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