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Contents
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26 HOMES AND GARDENS
Penclanni, South Hykeham
54 ANTIQUES
Microscopic detail
72 FASHION
Cover up with key coats
80 RECIPE
From sea to shore
92 COUNTY CALENDAR
Events around the county
99 BOOKSHELF
LIFE VISITS:
FRE
A review of the reads
62 LINCOLN
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Apples in
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WI
City’s changing
Abundance
Stamford's
A round-up of the clubs
face
PETER TREE
Community
The chair man
Orchards
115 LIFE AND TIMES
88 NETTLEHAM
of Rauceby
At water’s edge
Shaping up for
Gilson
Lavis
116 BUSINESS NEWS
future growth
Artist following
A
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the beat of a
Winning designs and
108 GRIMSBY
different drum
boat show stars
Full steam ahead
117 EQUESTRIAN LIFE
full of LINCOLNSHIRE... full of LIFE
Diary and news
FEATURES
124 GUNROOM
25 INTERIORS &
In the field
GARDENS
125 MOTORING LIFE
Tips for your home
Top marques
58 ELYSIUM GALLERY
136 THE LAST WORD
First anniversary
Su Whale
68 CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
Ideas for all the family
DINING OUT
105 COUNTY HISTORY
86 THE JENNY WREN INN
The day the axe fell
Susworth
118 BURGHLEY HORSE
TRIALS 2015
SOCIAL LIFE
An international affair
08 BATTLE OF BRITAIN
132 BATTLE OF LOOS
Charity Gala night
Poem recalls sad event
76 LINCOLNSHIRE LIFE
WEDDING FAIR
REGULARS
Hemswell Court
04 COUNTY LIFE
101 THE KING’S SCHOOL
News from around the county
CCF Regimental Leavers’ Dinner 2015
07 LIFE PORTRAIT
Matt Warman MP
Cover photograph:
09 THE PROPERTY PAGES
Boat at Saltfleet Haven by Billy Clapham
Lincolnshire’s prestige
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COVER STORIES
32 APPLES IN ABUNDANCE
Stamford’s Community
Orchards
42 PETER TREE
The chair man of Rauceby
102 GILSON LAVIS
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Show winner
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75th anniversary ride
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he Lincolnshire Life stand at
this year’s Lincolnshire Show
ran a series of fabulous visitor
competitions and here is one of the
winners receiving her prize. Evie-Mae
Capps is pictured with Jim Luck,
owner of Luck of Louth, wearing
her Dubarry boots. We are all very
envious of those Evie-Mae and hope
you enjoy wearing them.
Jim Luck
presenting the
prize to EvieMae Capps
Cadets benefit
Right to left: Sgt Neil Palmer, Cpl Matt McIntyre, Wg Cdr
Steve Berry, Cpl Matt Cryer and Sgt Darren Williams. (All
images copyright Imagewise/RAF Benevolent Fund.)
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ive airmen based at RAF Coningsby and two riders
from Greatford and Swarby were among fifty-two
cyclists who cycled triumphantly onto The Mall
last month.
The group had cycled from Paris to London to
commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of
Britain and to raise funds for the RAF Benevolent Fund,
the RAF’s leading welfare charity. The 221-mile journey
was completed over four days on Brompton bicycles,
which like the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes
seventy-five years ago, are icons of British engineering.
The riders were a mixture of RAF personnel and
civilians, brought together by the common goal of raising
more than £50,000 for the charity.
Sergeant Neil Palmer, Sergeant Darren Williams,
Corporal Matt McIntyre, Corporal Matt Cryer and Wing
Commander Steve Berry are all based at RAF Coningsby
– together they have raised more than £3,000. Two of
them, Darren and Neil, completed the final part of the
ride dressed as fighter pilots.
M
rs Sarah Jane Eggleton, manager of the Thrift
Shop at RAF Coningsby presented a cheque for
£100 to Flight Lieutenant Robert Eyre, OC 17
(Coningsby) Squadron Air Training Corps. Flt Lt Eyre said:
“It’s brilliant that the base shop are helping our cadets
out in this way.” The donation will go towards purchasing
equipment to be used by the cadets participating in the Duke
of Edinburgh’s Award scheme.
The Corps is open to all young people between the ages
of 12 and 17 and provides a wide range of activities. They
are continually looking to recruit not only young people but
adult volunteers. If you are interested in finding out more
call on 07928 214981 or email: [email protected]
Funds will be used
to buy equipment
Chalk stream photographic competition
C
alling all photographers!
There is still time to enter a
new photographic competition
which has been organised by The
Lincolnshire Chalk Stream Project.
They are running a festival of free
events during the October half-term
holidays, Monday 26th through to
Friday 30th October.
These will be at various venues
across the Lincolnshire Wolds and
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designed to raise awareness of
Lincolnshire Chalk Streams, their
fragility and value as UK BAP
Priority habitats
As part of this festival, ‘Chalk
Streams of Lincolnshire’ is a free to
enter photographic competition, open
to all ages, looking for images which
capture the beauty, flora, fauna and
landscape of these unique streams.
The closing date for entries is 16th
October with the winners and prizes
awarded at the Festival Finale which
will be held in Hubbards Hills, Louth
on Friday 30th October.
If you would like more information
about the competition please see
Entry Instructions and Terms and
Conditions, links for which can be
found on the Lincolnshire Wolds
Countryside Service web page:
www.lincswolds.org.uk
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LIFE Portrait
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Matt Warman MP
M
att Warman is the newly elected Member
of Parliament for Boston and Skegness.
Retaining the seat for the Conservatives with a
majority of 4,336 he campaigned on a commitment to
improve communication between Westminster and the
electorate, and increasing investment in Lincolnshire’s
roads, broadband and public services.
Matt’s connections to Boston go back almost two
decades. His father-in-law, Martin Weaver, retired this
year after teaching science at Boston Grammar School
and his mother-in-law, Miki, until recently worked
for the RSPB at Freiston Shore. His wife Rachel is a
doctor, currently working in A&E.
Prior to entering politics, Matt worked for the
Daily Telegraph from 1999 until 2015, focusing for
most of the period on technology, leading coverage of
Facebook, Google and Apple, and covering the launch
of products including the iPhone, the BBC iPlayer and
the Apple Watch, as well as interviewing key figures
including the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, and Sir
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web.
Since entering the House of Commons Matt has
campaigned in particular on issues around flooding
and agriculture, immigration and the EU, and on
improvements to the national roll-out of superfast
broadband. “Our part of Lincolnshire provides the
best of British food, a relatively affordable cost of
living and some of the best of the country’s heritage
and tourism,” says Matt. “My job as an MP is to be
a local champion for my constituents, delivering real
improvements for all those who live here and standing
up for our interests.”
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Hemswell Court, Hemswell Cliff last month.
Glorious sunshine greeted the many, many
brides and their families who attended. Visitors had
the chance to watch hair demonstrations as well
as taste delicious cake samples and view wedding
transport. Exhibitors also included photographers and
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bridal fashion specialists, fireworks professionals as well
as florists and jewellers.
Thank you to all our exhibitors and the staff of
Hemswell Court for making this such a successful event.
The winner of our Champagne prize draw was Leanne
Percival of Scampton.
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RECIPE
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Sea to shore
STARTER
Red cabbage cured salmon, charred
peaches with horseradish and Jersey
milk curd, parsley oil and redcurrant
juice
Ingredients:
500g piece of fresh salmon pin boned
and skin on
100ml fresh red cabbage juice
200g granulated sugar
50g table salt
2 large white flash peaches cut into
wedges
1 tablespoon coconut oil
For the curd:
250ml fresh Jersey milk
10ml lemon juice
Pinch salt
50g freshly grated horseradish
For the red currant:
100g fresh redcurrant
2
100ml water
10ml cider vinegar
50g isomalt sugar
Salt and ground white pepper to taste
Method:
Two days ahead: wash and dry the
salmon, place skin down in a nonreactive (steel, plastic or glass) half
deep tray. Mix all the dry ingredients
and spread evenly on the salmon, leave
to rest at room temperature for 1 hour.
Wet with the red cabbage juice, cover
with cling film and refrigerate. Thinly
slice after 48 hours.
For the curd, place the milk in a pan
and gently heat to 85C, add the lemon
juice and mix well, take off the fire and
leave in a warm place for 3 hours.
Strain the curdled milk in muslin
cloth, add the salt and horseradish and
mix well, refrigerate.
For the puree: place the redcurrant
in a pan with the water, vinegar and
isomalt. Season with salt and pepper,
cook on low heat for 3 minutes, strain
in a clean container and refrigerate.
Place the olive oil and fresh parsley
in a blender and blend to puree, leave
at room temperature overnight, season
with salt and strain through a muslin
cloth.
Before serving, heat a thick based
non-stick frying pan on high, add the
coconut oil and the peaches and roast
quickly on all sides. Season with salt
and serve.
MAIN COURSE
Plank baked whole sea bream with sea
vegetables and lemon
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Ivano de Serio, Head Chef
of The Old Bakery
Ingredients:
4 gutted and descaled whole fresh sea
breams about 350-400g each
2 lemons
100g samphire
50g sea aster
50g Okahijiki
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt to taste
4 small oak smoking plank
200ml white wine
300ml water
Method:
For this recipe I am using The Big
Green Egg BBQ, which needs to be
heated at 160C. Soak the oak planks in
water and white wine for 45 minutes.
Wash the fish and rub with salt
and olive oil. Place a mix of the sea
vegetables on the 4 planks, lay the sea
bream on them, slice the lemon and
place inside the fish cavity, season with
salt and oil.
Make sure you use the Plate Setter
in the Big Green Egg to avoid burning
the planks and keep the fish moist.
Place the planks directly on the grill
and close the lid.
Cook for 20-25 minutes depending
on fish size. To check when the fish
is ready gently pull the dorsal fin of
the bream – if it comes out easily and
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clean, the fish is cooked.
Cooking the fish this way is a Mediterranean way which
keeps the fish moist and much more tasty than when filleted.
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2 whole eggs
90g flour
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Small pinch of Maldon salt
• Salmon Fillet on a bed of Spinach with Hollandaise Sauce
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• Roasted Red Pepper & Tomato Soup, Garlic Croutons
• Chicken Liver Pate with Cumberland Sauce
Red cabbage cured salmon, charred peaches with
• Creamyand
Garlic
& Stilton
Mushrooms
horseradish
Jersey
milk curd,
parsley oil
Goats Cheese
& Walnut Salad, Balsamic Dressing
and •redcurrant
juice.
Salmon
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sea &
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sea vegetables
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Smoked chocolate chip brownie and salted figs
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• Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding
• Ham,Leek & Stilton Pie with a Puff Pastry Top
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• Mixed Bean & Vegetable Chilli with Rice, Sour Cream &
Cheese & Garlic Bread
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Method:
Melt 200g of chocolate with the butter in a bowl, mix the
eggs and sugar together, add to the chocolate and mix well.
Add the flour and vanilla mix together, chop the rest of
chocolate and add it to the mix.
Lay the baking tray with the parchment and pour the
mixture, sprinkle the salt on the surface and bake in the Big
Green Egg with the closed lid at 150C for 30 minutes.
Let the BBQ heat to 250C and grill the figs cut in half and
Starters
sprinkled with little salt.
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EQUESTRIAN LIFE
2015 Land Rover
Burghley proves an
international affair
In a thrilling finale played out under glorious blue skies,
Germany’s Michael Jung and his superstar partner,
La Biosthetique Sam FBW, took the Land Rover
Burghley championship title, and in doing so became
the first German combination to have their names
inscribed in the event’s famous history book.
Words: Carole Pendle Photographs: Peter Nixon and Baron Halpenny
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he reigning Olympic and
European Champion could
not afford a single mistake in
the final showjumping phase of the
competition as the rider before him,
Tim Price, had piled on the pressure by
jumping an immaculate clear round.
other ride, Fischerrocana FST, after
the mare unexpectedly slipped in the
water under Lion Bridge on the crosscountry. “I am lucky that I have two
horses that have finished safe. Sam
gave me a very good feeling warming
up for the showjumping; he felt
But Sam, now sixteen and undisputedly
the best event horse of the modern era,
gave every fence feet to spare. The grin
on his rider’s face, together with the
accompanying air-pump as he crossed
the finish line, told the story.
“To win Burghley is very special,”
confirmed Michael, who had an
eventful
weekend
having
fallen
from his
powerful and he was very concentrated.
He is like a good friend to me; I have
learnt a lot from him and hopefully he
has learnt a little from me.”
After battling until the end, New
Zealander Tim Price had to settle for
second place with Varenna Allen’s and
his own Ringwood Sky Boy.
“The horse has been improving in
every way, so I knew I could be up
there in the dressage and hoped I’d
stay there after the cross-country, but
to still be in this position today is very
exciting,” he said. “Ringwood Sky Boy
is not natural in the showjumping, but
he tries very hard and he is learning to
be careful at the right times.”
Tim’s wife, Jonelle, whose fast crosscountry round with Trisha Rickard’s
Classic Moet was considered by many
to have been the performance of the
day, dropped one rail to slide from
third to fifth place. Nevertheless it was
a memorable Land Rover Burghley
for the Antipodeans – second to sixth
places were all claimed by riders from
the southern hemisphere.
Australia’s Christopher Burton
delivered two masterful performances
on his two rides – TS Jamaimo, owned
by Richard Ames, Alan Bell and Russ
Withers, and Haruzac, owned by Alan
Skinner – to finish third and fourth.
With the former he was the only rider
to finish on his dressage score.
“I’m delighted with both horses. In
2004 as a young rider I flew a horse
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Rosalind Canter
here from Australia, but we only got
as far as fence three,” he smiled.
Yesterday was the first time I’d seen
the finish flags.”
Sir Mark Todd completed the
domination from Down Under by
coming sixth on Diane Brunsden and
Peter Cattell’s Leonidas II. In seventh
was Frenchman Cydric Lyard (Cadeau
Du Roi).
Tina Cook was the best-placed
British rider in eighth place with Jim
Chromiak, Shaun Lawson, Bridget
Biddlecombe and Mr & Mrs Embricos’
smart ten-year-old Star Witness, while
William Fox-Pitt finished just behind
ninth-placed Australian Sam Griffiths
(Paulank Brockagh) in tenth with
Carol Gee and Catherine Witt’s fourstar first-timer Fernhill Pimms.
Although outside the top ten, local
rider Ros Canter had one big aim:
to compete at a four-star before her
thirtieth birthday. Aged twenty-nine
years and nine months she not only
completed the Land Rover Burghley
Horse Trials in 37th place, but won
the prize for the highest-placed British
first-timer with Caroline Moore’s
Allstar B.
“I’ve been coming to Burghley since
I was five years old; I used to compete
here in the Pony Club showjumping
competition,” said Ros, who is based
in Louth, Lincolnshire.
A brilliant performance in the
dressage arena had left the pair in
tenth place going into the crosscountry phase and their performance
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on Saturday was marred only by a slip
up at the influential Discovery Valley
(fence twenty-four).
“Albie is such a gentleman and
he has proved that he is, without a
shadow of a doubt, a real four-star
horse,” said Ros. “Of course you
always want to do a little bit better,
but overall I’m thrilled to have made
the step up to this level – it’s a really
big thing and has given me confidence
that I can take forward from here.”
Albie, an imposing ten-year-old
17hh gelding, jumped an immaculate
showjumping round on the final day,
just clocking up one time penalty.
“He will have a well-deserved
holiday now while I concentrate on the
younger horses,” said Ros.
Away from the equestrian event
another competition was proving to
be just as competitive: the search was
for the event’s best presented trade
stands.
“Eye-catching and innovative” was
how the judges described the winning
large trade stand, Beaufort & Blake.
The London-based men’s outfitters
display beautifully showcased the
company’s range of quirky dress
shirts, silk ties, boxer shorts and
accessories.
“This is our third year at Land
Rover Burghley. It’s a show that
we are always keen to come to and
always look forward to,” said the
company’s Sam Pullen, who explained
that the garments, which bear
hand-drawn and designed prints of
elephants and sea turtles, are inspired
by a tradition of menswear that hailed
from the British Army.
Tristan Cockerill’s striking display
of furniture made from driftwood was
judged to be the best trade stand in
the Burghley Lifestyle Pavillion.
A landscape gardener by trade,
Tristan now specialises in making
bespoke furniture from natural
reclaimed materials.
“We can convert redundant items,
such as old fishing boats and washed
up driftwood into seats, glass-topped
coffee tables and vases,” explained
Tristan, whose simple but effective
display demonstrated a variety of his
bestselling products.
“We sold thirty vases on the first
day,” he said.
Cambridge-based fudge maker,
Fudge Kitchen (F1), won the best
trade stand in the Food Walk – and
after some thorough sampling it was
easy to see why.
“All our fudge is handmade to
a recipe dating back to 1830,”
explained Lee, who has been coming
to Land Rover Burghley for about ten
years. Chocolate Orange and After
Dinner Mint were just two of the
mouth-watering flavours on display.
“We don’t cut up our fudge into
squares – it’s made in loaves and we
sell it by the slice,” continued Lee.
“The inside of the loaf is meant to be
a little bit gooey and sticky, whereas
the outside is more crumbly.”
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COUNTY HISTORY
War poem recalls a
sad day for Lincolnshire
Writer and historian Keith Gregson, author of ‘A Tommy in the Family’
researches a First World War postcard with Lincolnshire connections.
Words: Keith Gregson
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Of men who came out clearly there were one-hundred-and twenty-three,
And those all looked round eagerly for their mates they could not see
There were many aching hearts I’m sure, amidst that motley throng –
For most of them had lost a friend, who’s (sic) spirit had gone along
(Extract from ‘The Charge at Loos’)
his article is
based on a
postcard given
to me by my father
many years ago when
I was in charge of a
history department
at a large northern
comprehensive school.
He used to trawl
what at the time
were called ‘white
elephant shops’
for primary source
material I could use
in the classroom. As
a result I ended up
with a couple of books
of First World War
postcards similar
to this. More recently I have been
working on records relating to
amateur rugby, cricket, tennis and
hockey players from Sunderland who
joined a local territorial battalion,
went off to war, and were decimated
at the Battle of Ypres in the late
spring of 1915.
Always keen to mark centenaries,
I turned my attention to the postcard
which is the subject of this article. It
has a very specific date on it – 13th
October 1915 – and as I researched
further into events behind the poem,
was struck by the similarities in
what happened to the Lincolnshire
lads in October and the Sunderland
lads a few months earlier. Both were
at battalion strength (nominally
1,000 men – 1st/5 battalion
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Lincolnshire Regiment and 1/7
battalion Durham Light Infantry),
both were new volunteers or longstanding territorials – part of the
‘New Army’ fresh to action, both
were involved in gas attacks and
both suffered heavy losses.
The title of the poem ‘The Charge
at Loos’ gives the context of the
engagement nicely. By the autumn
of 1915, trench warfare was firmly
underway and numerous efforts
on the part of both sides to break
through opposition lines had ended
in failure. What has become known
as the Battle of Loos was the
biggest allied offensive of 1915.
Loos itself is a relatively small
place on contemporary maps of the
battlefields. It lies just to the north
of the town of Lens
and was in a coalfield,
which explains the
distinctive buildings
which often appear in
pictures of the battle.
The 1/5 Lincolnshire
involvement (also
as with the Durham
lads) came at the very
end of the campaign,
when everything
was thrown at the
enemy with dire
consequences.
Looking at
the Lincolnshire
battalion in more
detail, it turns out
to have been part of
the 46th (North Midland) Division
(Territorial Force). The territorial
army of the early twentieth century
was based on regional divisions –
(the Sunderland lads were in the
51st North East Division) – the
Lincolnshire lads were trained
to fight alongside men from
Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire
& Derbyshire, North Staffordshire
and Monmouthshire. As in all
these divisions, there was support
from the Royal Field Artillery and
Royal Engineers – also mainly
local territorials.
Most of those involved had joined
up as soon as the war broke out in
August 1914 if they were not in
the territorials already. Since then
they would have been involved in
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training and guarding places of local
strategic importance.
The ‘Charge at Loos’ which gave
the poem its title took place on the
last afternoon of the battle and
involved an old pit-heap known
as the Hump and an area called
the Hohenzollern Redoubt. The
British artillery fired at the enemy
positions and released poison gas
but then there was a delay and by
the time the charge took place, the
Germans were back in position.
There were only a couple of hundred
yards between the trenches and
the enemy held the upper ground,
packed with machine guns and
with wonderful views across noman’s land. Two battalions of the
Lincolnshires, including the 1st/5,
were in the vanguard and were
virtually wiped out. Very few of the
victims have known graves and as
one online site notes, ‘these were
regiments whose recruits were from
the same towns and villages, many
brothers, fathers and sons, uncles
and cousins all died together’.
The only person mentioned
by name in the poem was
the commanding officer
Thomas Edward Sandall. He
lived to tell the tale and to
write the battalion’s story.
He was a Northamptonshire
born doctor who had settled
in Alford, which was home
to a volunteer military
movement that preceded
the territorials. As far back
as 1900, Sandall was an
officer in the volunteers
so was long-serving as a
part-time soldier by 1915.
By then he was lieutenant-colonel
and in his mid-forties. As the poem
suggests, he was wounded in the
action but was still around after the
war to dedicate the war memorial
at Alford.
I may also have found the author
of the poem. E C Plastow is
something of an unusual name and
general search engines suggest that
someone of that name published
a book in 1918 entitled Rhymes
of the Times – also that the work
is ‘currently unavailable’. The
genealogy web sites are more
helpful, leading us to an Edwin
Charles Plastow who was born in
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Grimsby around 1885 and in 1911
at census time was twenty-six,
a master baker and living at 30
Nicholson Street in Cleethorpes. He
was a journeyman baker, married
with two children. Ten years earlier
an Edwin Chas Plastow was sixteen
and living with his parents Henry
and Margaret. Edwin was an errand
boy and his London born father a
dock labourer. Their address was 58
Tiverton Street. In 1891 six-yearold Edwin C Plastow was at 248
Hooper Street and it was clear that
the family had moved to Cleethorpes
from the south just before Edwin’s
birth. A number of his military
records have survived and
show that he served in the
1/5 Lincolnshires and,
later, the Army Service
Corps. He landed in France
in February 1915 and
received the 1914/15
star. In 1916 he was moved to the
Defence Corps and in 1918 to the
Army Service Corps. He received
the two traditional service medals
too. He seems to have died in Kent
in 1935. There seems no reason to
doubt that he was at, or near to, the
battle himself.
In 2006 a memorial was unveiled
at the site of the attack and it was
dedicated to all who served and fell
in the Hohenzollern Redoubt battle
on the 13th October 1915.
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Loos poem
Battlefield map
Soldiers at the Charge at Loos
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