Journeys End by Robert Cedric Sherriff - Letter From Stanhope to Raleighs Parents

Excursions End by Robert Cedric Sherriff - Letter From Stanhope to Raleighs Parents Excursions End Letter24th March 1917Somewhere inFranceDear Mr and Mrs RaleighI'm profoundly sorry to educate you that your child has been slaughtered in real life. Jimmy was killed on the 21st of this current month. Jimmy had quite recently been put on the job on the forefront the Germans had been making a major push for a couple of hours when Jimmy had took his obligation. There weapons shelled us tenaciously. A shell dropped just before our line and detonated sending shrapnel flying everywhere. A bit of shrapnel sadly hit jimmy in the back, he was immediately gotten by two fighters and me. We conveyed him down into the burrow; he was in no agony by any stretch of the imagination. Jimmy requested some water I gave him a mug full, at that point we lay there for a few minutes thinking back over the great occasions I and he had had.Jimmy Dean and Large DogsHe then requested a light, he has consistently been apprehensive about the dim. When I showed up back next to him he was gone he ha d calmly slipped away.Raleigh had just been with the organization a little league however he had just made numerous companions. He used to sit with the men in the front accomplishing work when he needn't to. A ton of the men respected him and my officers frequently supplementing him on his knowledge and excited disposition. Raleigh partook in an effective attack on the German line where he drove ten men he effectively caught an automatic weapon and packaged a German over no keeps an eye ashore, for his courageous endeavors that helped the English war battle he got a Military Cross. I feel profoundly disheartened by Jimmy's demise he will be significantly missed by me and my men. Jimmy was a great...