Sidney Gobourn's
Sidney Gobourn was a soldier with the Royal Cameron Highland Regiment.At the
Battle of Arras he was wounded and lost his sight.He lay for two days in No
Man`s Land but managed to get back to the trenches by dragging a fellow
soldier who was so badly injured he could not walk.Sidney was the legs and
his friend shouted out directions.
Back in the UK the Colonel`s sister was a regular hospital visitor and read
to the injured soldiers.After one visit the Hospital sister asked Sidney when
he was going to ask Kathleen to marry him "I have seen the way she looks at
you".
He was from a poor family in Wolverhampton and she was landed gentry and 10
years older than Sidney.However despite the disapproval of her family(her
father never spoke to her again)they did get married and had 56 years
together.He trained as a physiotherapist after the war and was well known and
repected in Cheltenham where they settled.The family are still in
possessionof the Bible that he had with him at the time he was injured.Sidney
died in 1976 aged 80
| Title |
Sidney Gobourn's
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|---|---|
| Subject |
Gobourn, Sidney
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| Notes |
Editor's Comment:
Pte. S/21662 Sidney Gobourn, Cameron Highlanders. |
| Item date |
1917
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| Creation place |
Arras
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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| Filename |
GWA_4227_My_Grandfather_s_Story.txt
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Catharine Cook
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Collection
Citation
“Sidney Gobourn's,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/5904.
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