{"id":111725,"date":"2017-11-28T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:13:21","slug":"the-wrong-letter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/the-wrong-letter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wrong Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-wmXrAugHpl0\/T931o-ONZzI\/AAAAAAAABI8\/0P6flgsWU0Y\/s1600\/memory,poster,letters,ideas,picture,random-f987712b2929a3adbc0ca952ae0710e5_h.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/memoryposterlettersideaspicturerandom-f987712b2929a3adbc0ca952ae0710e5_h-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-111726\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Sometimes in the chaos of war, sad mistakes were made. This article published in the Eastbourne Gazette on <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">18th September 1918<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">, highlights this. It was fortunate for Mr and Mrs Allchorn that they knew where their son really was.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">A Sad Mistake<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\">Burial of an Unknown Soldier<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;\">&#8220;Mr and Mrs Allchorn. 27, Willowfield road, request us to publish the following letter which they have received from a chaplain in <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 10.5pt;\">France<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 10.5pt;\">:-<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;\">\u201cI am sorry to have to write to you on such a sad subject and I want to offer you my heartfelt sympathy in your sorrow at the death of your boy. I buried him in the military cemetery near Bapaume and in due course a cross will be erected on his grave. Presently it will help you to think of him as happy at Home with the One Who and \u2018Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friend.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;\">This letter is a mistake, for the son of Mr and Mrs Allchorn is at present in hospital in <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Halifax<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> wounded for the fourth time. Efforts to rectify the mistake have failed, but it is hoped that the identity of the dead soldier may yet be established.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in the chaos of war, sad mistakes were made. This article published in the Eastbourne Gazette on 18th September 1918, highlights this. It was fortunate for Mr and Mrs Allchorn that they knew where their son really was. A Sad Mistake Burial of an Unknown Soldier &#8220;Mr and Mrs Allchorn. 27, Willowfield road, request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}