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Yeovil in the Great War 1914-18 (Paperback)
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Yeovil in the Great War 1914-18 (Paperback)
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In Yeovil in the Great War 1914-1918 Jack Sweet takes a personal
look back on the town during those momentous years from the
outbursts of patriotic fervour of August 1914 when many believed
that the war would be over by Christmas, to the Armistice of
November 1918 and a short time beyond. Jack recalls how Yeovil
welcomed Belgian refugees fleeing the German invasion of their home
land, how the Baptist Newnam Memorial Hall was converted into a
hospital for wounded soldiers, the beginnings of Westland Aircraft
and of a test pilot who was later convicted of murder. There is an
account of a deserter from the Salonika Front and how young women
from many parts of the country helped to harvest the important flax
crops. He relates how the town suffered in the influenza pandemic
of 1918 and how the Peace Treaty of July 1919 was celebrated.
Scarcely a Yeovil family remained untouched by the Great War; over
two hundred men would lose their lives and several hundred more
would be wounded. Alderman Jabez Matthews, a future Mayor, would
lose three sons.Jack Sweet's father, who was severely wounded and
suffered from the effects for the rest of his life, would lose a
great friend and two cousins, and one of his mother's cousins would
return home to die from his wounds. The Great War, or as it was
said at the time, "The War to End Wars", changed the world forever
but tragically only twenty-one years later the Second World War
broke out in September 1939.
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