Description: authentic item "I HAVE DONE MY BEST "STORAGE T13 T1 WWI letter home to the Stokesley and District Parcel Fund A letter dating from the end of WW1 to the Parcel Fund, A thank you letter for food parcels and or money sent often as Christmas gifts, and give a sense of grateful relief at having been remembered , the voice of a person otherwise lost to history. One of a number listed today For the most part, the people in these letters likely left little mark on officIal recorded history, despite their service in a world-shattering event. Their letter briefly returning them to view, whether in the formal tones of a thank you letter, the little hopes for peace, bombastic notes of Godly triumph after the Armistice, or the occasional honesty of being fed up with the lot of it, the voices of a lost generation offer a moment of humanity amongst terrible carnage. THIS FROM THE SUPERB STOKESLEY HERITAGE SITE Pte 9628 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment; Pte R/366307 ASC Raynor’s Yard William Thomas Alderson was born in Skutterskelfe in 1880 the son of Thomas Alderson, farmer and his wife Hannah (nee Young). In 1881 William was with his parents, older sister and 3 servants living at Tame Bridge. In 1891 The family was still at Tame Bridge in 1891, but there were 3 more children. By 1901, when the family was living at Brickyard Cottage, Seamer, William and his older sister had left home. His sister, Dorothy had married Robson Snowdon Haylar and was living in Stockton. Haylar children are mentioned in the accounts of prize-giving at The Preston Grammar School, Stokesley, but researches have so far failed to locate William in 1901. However, in 1911 William was recorded as working as a farm labourer and living in Raynor’s Yard, Stokesley. William Alderson's attestation papers do not appear to have survived but a medal card for William Thomas Alderson tells us that he first joined the 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment and was sent abroad to Egypt on 22nd November 1915. He was later transferred to the ASC . The “R” in his ASC number (see above) denotes the Remounts section, the branch of the ASC service which was responsible for supplying horses and mules to other service units at home and abroad. Pte Alderson was awarded the 1915 Star, and the British War Medal and Victory Medal. It seems he married Beatrice Kitching in Stokesley in 1934, and that he died in 1969 aged 91.
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